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ADVOCATES INC

ADVOCATES INC reported $3.5M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 28 clients.

$3.5M

reported in compensation

Reported by this firm to the Public Disclosure Commission as compensation received for lobbying.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 2016–2026, money received

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What they were paid, by year

Lobbying is reported monthly and totalled here by calendar year. A year with no row is a year with no reported compensation, not a year we have not read.

Reported lobbying compensation by year
Year Compensation Share of their largest year
2026 $524K
2025 $893K
2024 $407K
2023 $179K
2022 $84,000
2021 $96,529
2020 $254K
2019 $306K
2018 $301K
2017 $294K
2016 $195K

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 11 years on record

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Who paid them

Every organisation that this firm named as a source of its compensation. Self-funded filings — the firm reporting its own money — are excluded.

Clients
Client Reported
PUYALLUP TRIBE OF INDIANS $1.4M
Moneytree, Inc. $187K
CITY OF FEDERAL WAY $173K
Ball Corporation $173K
PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES OF WA $170K
Kenmore Air Harbor, LLC $165K
NAIOP Washington State $163K
RAI Services Company $153K
Active in Democracy on behalf of Local 31 $120K
Electronic Transactions Association $113K
Wild Salmon Center $105K
Veritec Solutions $88,000
Waymo LLC $71,500
American Car Rental Association $64,750
Friends of Boeing Field $45,000
Hometap Equity Partners, LLC (contracted through Water Street Public Affairs LLC) $42,000
MoneyTree Inc (Thru MultiState) $41,667
NATIONAL GUARD ASSOC OF WA $37,500
ADVANCE AMERICA (THRU MULTISTATE) $36,277
CHECK INTO CASH (THRU MULTISTATE) $36,277
Coalition for Home Equity Partnership $30,000
WALMART INC. $30,000
Ticket Policy Forum $29,167
Cedar Grove $18,000
Fairwood Pet Center $15,000
Aetna $10,000
Cithaeron $9,867
Bitcoin Depot (contracted through PNW Advocacy) $6,500
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
EHREN FLYGARE 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 28 listed

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Connected records

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This record’s page in the entity graph: /lobbyists/pdc-lobbyist-17329/

On the record · 40

One document states the relation in its own words.

Nothing on file

Bills lobbied on are not in the graph yet — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded. No adjacency observation appears here: no shared address or agent record has been read into an edge for this firm, which is not the same as none existing.

Checked 2026-10-20

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-10-20 · edges 40 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

What this money bought
Compensation is what was paid, not what was achieved. The record does not connect a payment to a bill, a vote or an outcome, and we will not infer one — a firm retained all session may have lost every argument it made.
Who was lobbied
Washington requires lobbyists to report what they were paid and by whom. It does not require them to report which legislators they spoke to, so nothing here names an officeholder.
Everything this firm earned
This is reported lobbying compensation. Other work the firm does for the same clients is not lobbying and is not reported here.
Whose number this is
Every figure on this page comes from the lobbying firm’s own report naming its funding source. Employers file separately, and the two accounts need not agree. Where they differ we show the firm’s, because that is the filing that itemises by source.

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Where this page comes from

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WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist compensation (L2 reports)
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist employment registrations
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists

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