Plumber political contributions from New Jersey

Plumber and New Jersey as a matched pair

FEC itemized individual contributions include occupation and donor state. This tie keeps PLUMBER and NJ. The intersection is $736,430, 6,265 contributions, and 137 donors. The occupation with no state filter is $5,890,623, 49,226 contributions, and 1,269 donors. New Jersey holds about 12.5% of Plumber-coded dollars, about 12.7% of Plumber-coded contribution rows, and about 10.8% of Plumber-coded donors.

Dollar share and row share are nearly the same, with donor share a little lower. The New Jersey Plumber join is a substantial, relatively even slice of a high-volume national trades label. Neither the occupation hub nor the New Jersey hub, read alone, shows that alignment.

One hundred thirty-seven New Jersey donors and 6,265 contribution rows produced $736,430 under PLUMBER. The occupation side is $5,890,623, 49,226 contributions, and 1,269 donors. About 12.5% of dollars and about 12.7% of rows is an even pair on a high-volume trades label. Evenness is useful for describing the overlap and useless for ranking New Jersey against other states, because this packet does not include those other states’ Plumber totals. The 6,265 rows are itemized individual lines, not a union roster.

The national Plumber occupation totals

PLUMBER is the filed string. PIPEFITTER, PLUMBER PIPEFITTER, and RETIRED PLUMBER are other buckets if those words appear. The national totals—$5,890,623, 49,226 contributions, 1,269 donors—show many itemized lines per donor identity, a pattern common in occupations with frequent small itemized gifts.

This page does not verify licenses, apprenticeships, or union membership. It reports the labeled receipts and then applies the New Jersey donor-state filter.

New Jersey’s 137 plumbers on the contributor file

One hundred thirty-seven New Jersey donors produced 6,265 contributions totaling $736,430. That is about one in nine Plumber-coded donors nationwide and about one-eighth of Plumber-coded dollars. Other New Jersey occupations—Banking, Producer, and others—are separate joins. Plumber receipts from other states fill the gap to $5,890,623.

NJ is the contributor state. It does not prove the work was performed in New Jersey or that New Jersey federal candidates received the $736,430. Recipient committee address is a different field.

Even shares still need a caveat

When dollar, row, and donor percentages sit close together, it is tempting to treat the join as a “typical” state sample of the occupation. It is not a sample. It is every itemized row that used both strings. Other states may look nothing like New Jersey. About 87.5% of Plumber-coded dollars remain outside this page.

The evenness of the New Jersey shares is still not a finding about the trades, about unions, or about New Jersey elections. It is how these two columns overlap.

A trades label whose New Jersey shares travel together

New Jersey’s Plumber join is $736,430 from 137 donors and 6,265 contributions against $5,890,623 from 1,269 donors and 49,226 contributions nationwide. About 12.5% of dollars, about 10.8% of donors, and about 12.7% of rows sit close together. New Jersey is a sizable, even slice of a high-row trades occupation.

PIPEFITTER and PLUMBER PIPEFITTER are other strings. This join does not merge them and does not encode union status. The 49,226 national rows already imply frequent small itemized gifts. New Jersey’s 6,265 rows are about one-eighth of that line volume.

Banking and Producer also use New Jersey. They are not this occupation. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. See Plumber donations, New Jersey campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Limits of the occupation-state match

This join does not rank New Jersey against other states on plumber giving, and it does not claim trade occupations fund particular bills. Two FEC fields met. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized contributions and independent expenditures are not in these counts. See Plumber donations, New Jersey campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Questions

How much have Plumber donors in New Jersey given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Plumber and state New Jersey total $736,430. That join includes 6,265 contributions and 137 donors. Nationwide, Plumber-coded receipts are $5,890,623 from 1,269 donors and 49,226 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What share of national Plumber giving is New Jersey?

New Jersey’s $736,430 is about 12.5% of the $5,890,623 national Plumber total. The state has 137 of 1,269 donors (about 10.8%) and 6,265 of 49,226 contributions (about 12.7%). Those shares describe the join, not a ranking of states.

Are these union plumbers?

The occupation field is PLUMBER as entered. It does not encode union status. Nationally the label covers 1,269 donors and $5,890,623. This tie only adds the New Jersey state filter. Employer and memo text are not aggregated here.

Did this money stay in New Jersey races?

Not necessarily. Donor state is New Jersey. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $736,430 by office Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of New Jersey races. This join is $736,430 from 137 donors and 6,265 contributions against $5,890,623 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.