PLUMBER

High-frequency trades receipts

$5,890,623 is the occupation-level dollar total. 49,226 is the itemization count. 1,269 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $120 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,642 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 39 itemizations per donor record. Forty-nine thousand-plus lines from 1,269 donor records is a high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a modest mean dollars per line.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $120 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per contribution sit toward the low side among occupation strings near this dollar band. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions; this bucket is heavier on line count than on dollars per line.

Self-reported trade text, not a license list

PLUMBER, PLUMBING CONTRACTOR, and PIPEFITTER are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. A donor who files PLUMBING CONTRACTOR in one cycle and PLUMBER in another is split.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals PLUMBER after indexing. PLUMBING CONTRACTOR, PIPEFITTER, and CONTRACTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to PLUMBER.

Questions

How much have plumber donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list PLUMBER sum to $5,890,623 across 49,226 contributions and 1,269 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does the FEC verify plumber licenses?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. PLUMBER itemizations still sum to $5,890,623 from 49,226 contributions and 1,269 donor records. Quote those three facts; do not treat them as a license census. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Why are there 49,226 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,269 donor records add rows. About 39 lines per record and about $120 per contribution are means on $5,890,623, not a payroll-deduction proof. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Are plumbing contractors included?

Only if the occupation field equals PLUMBER. PLUMBING CONTRACTOR is a different key. This page is $5,890,623, 49,226 lines, and 1,269 donors. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.