ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98
Total Donated
$19,562,659
Contributions
111,945
Unique Donors
1,837
Top Employer
ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98
Contributors who listed ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 on federal itemized receipts account for $19,562,659, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 111,945 contributions from 1,837 donors. ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 is a self-reported employer string — a union-local name as typed — not a NAICS electrical-contractor rollup and not a nationwide IBEW total.
Key figures
- ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 as FEC employer text totals $19,562,659.
- 1,837 donors produced 111,945 contribution lines.
- Other locals, IBEW, and ELECTRICIAN as a job title are separate strings.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS contractor industry or PAC total.
A local’s name, not every electrician
The industry ranking stores whatever employer text committees grouped. ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 is that local’s name on individual receipts. The $19,562,659 figure is the sum of those itemized gifts. It is not a census of every licensed electrician in the United States, and it is not every IBEW local’s combined giving.
People who typed IBEW, a different local number, ELECTRICIAN as a job title, or a contractor company name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into Local 98.
1,837 donors and 111,945 lines
1,837 unique donors produced 111,945 ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 contribution lines totaling $19,562,659. That is on the order of 61 itemized receipts per donor — high paperwork volume relative to the unique-person count. Recurring itemized gifts and payroll-style itemization can both produce that shape. The packet does not split those mechanisms.
Party share is not on the industry headline. A union PAC’s own committee filings are a different FEC category unless the individual receipt itself carries this employer string. This $19,562,659 is the individual-employer cluster only.
Full analysis: ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 as FEC employer text: $19.6 million →
Questions
- How much have ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $19,562,659 to the ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 employer string, from 111,945 contributions and 1,837 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a nationwide electrician total and not a NAICS contractor sector. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
- Is this the union’s PAC spending?
- Not as a PAC document. The $19,562,659 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98. Committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those committee reports into this industry row. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
- Does this include every IBEW local?
- No. Other local numbers and the letters IBEW, if stored as different strings, are other keys. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98. The 1,837 donors are that string’s unique contributors, not a national membership count.
- Why so many contributions per donor?
- The 111,945 lines include repeat gifts from the same 1,837 people — on the order of 61 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise the line count. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-member census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.