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MELANIE J SMITH

MELANIE J SMITH reported $1.5M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 28 clients.

$1.5M

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 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 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 $105K
2025 $225K
2024 $202K
2023 $189K
2022 $182K
2021 $187K
2020 $111K
2019 $82,870
2018 $83,737
2017 $42,520
2016 $44,500

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 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
COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN $291K
WA ST PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN $189K
MULTI-SERVICE CENTER LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM $168K
Wonderland Child & Family Services $112K
NAMI WA $109K
Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness $102K
ALZHEIMERS ASSN WA ST CHAPTER $85,800
Coalition of ACHs $73,500
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES $67,950
Washington State Charter School Commission $49,500
WA ST SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK $47,950
WA ST COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE $43,170
Cascade AIDS Project $41,000
PRO-CHOICE WASHINGTON $20,150
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research $20,000
Pierce County Human Services Coalition $8,202
KING CO SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER $7,000
Washington CASA Association $4,000
The Youth Justice Fund $3,500
Seattle Children's Museum $3,400
Safe Babies Safe Moms $1,200
AARP WA ST OFFICE (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $1,036
Coltura (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $936
EarthGen (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $936
Methow Valley Citizens Council (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $936
Puget Consumers Co-op DBA PCC Community Markets (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $936
Sightline Institute (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $636
ZERO WASTE WA (Grist Public Affairs LLC) $586
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
MELANIE J SMITH 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
MELANIE SMITH 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 28 listed

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Connected records

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Nothing on file

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Checked 2026-08-12

Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · edges 22 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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What this page will not compute

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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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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