Who pays to lobby the state government.
Registered lobbyists, their clients and what the clients reported, from Alaska’s lobbying records.
registered lobbyists
Distinct registrants in APOC's Lobbyist Directory for 2026 (exported Oct. 20, 2026): 112 names on 555 registrations (one per lobbyist and employer). 4 of the names are lobbying firms registered under the firm's name (Confluence Strategies, Inc.; J&H Consulting; Legislative Consultants LLC; Strategy North Group LLC., each as filed); the rest are individuals. 8 registrants had ended every 2026 registration by Oct. 20, and 25 registrations show a termination date.
clients (lobbyist employers)
Distinct employers named on the 555 2026 registrations in the same directory. 474 employers had filed at least one 2026 quarterly report, and APOC's 2026 Employer of Lobbyist Summary lists payments for 451.
| North Slope Borough | $307,500.00 |
| HILCORP ALASKA, LLC | $266,225.25 |
| ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. | $233,793.40 |
| Matanuska Electric Association | $198,250.00 |
| Exxon Mobil Corporation | $175,200.00 |
| AARP | $164,553.66 |
| APEA/AFT | $144,944.00 |
| Oil Search (Alaska), LLC a subsidiary of Santos Limited | $144,000.00 |
| Icy Strait Point | $135,000.00 |
| Alaska National Insurance Company | $128,465.10 |
| SEIU 775 | $127,722.34 |
| Chugach Electric Association, Inc. | $125,750.00 |
| Altria Client Services LLC and its Affiliates | $123,000.00 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | $114,000.00 |
| Municipality of Anchorage | $113,999.93 |
| Whaler Casino Supply LLC | $110,000.00 |
| Atlas Air Worldwide | $108,500.00 |
| Alaska Regional Hospital | $108,391.86 |
| Alaska Municipal League | $103,620.21 |
| Marnell Gaming Management, LLC | $102,000.00 |
| Fairbanks North Star Borough | $100,826.20 |
| Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska | $100,809.78 |
| RAI Services Company | $100,116.00 |
| Glenfarne Group, LLC | $100,000.00 |
| Groundfish Forum | $100,000.00 |
| Saltchuk | $100,000.00 |
Payments to lobbyists the employer reported on Schedule A of its four quarterly Employer of Lobbyist reports for January-December 2025, as totaled by APOC's Employer of Lobbyist Summary: compensation earned by each lobbyist (fee or salary, plus other compensation at fair market value) and the lobbying expenses the employer reimbursed, summed over all the employer's lobbyists. It is not campaign contributions, not the employer's other lobbying costs (Schedule B, kept separately) and not the organization's total budget. Two-decimal amounts as APOC exports them.
Sources: APOC, Lobbyist Directory, report year 2026 (CSV export); APOC, Employer of Lobbyist Summary, 2025 (CSV export); APOC, Employer of Lobbyist Summary, 2026 to date (CSV export); APOC, Employer of Lobbyist Reports, 2025 and 2026 (CSV exports; quarters filed); APOC, Manual of Instructions for Lobbyists and Employers of Lobbyists (revised December 2014): Schedule A and Schedule B of the employer report, due dates; APOC, 2026 Lobbyist Directory (amended Feb. 9, 2026, PDF; saved for reference).
How to read this
Alaska calls the organizations that hire lobbyists employers of lobbyists; on this page they are the clients. Lobbyists register each calendar year with APOC, once for each employer. Employers file a report every calendar quarter, due by the last day of the following month (Jan.-Mar. by April 30, and so on); its Schedule A lists, for each lobbyist, the compensation earned and the expenses the employer reimbursed, and its Schedule B lists other costs of lobbying not paid to a registered lobbyist, such as in-house staff time. Lobbyists file their own reports as well (monthly during legislative sessions); their figures are a separate record and are not used for the amounts here. The amounts are for calendar 2025 because all four 2025 quarterly reports are in; for 2026, only the January-March and April-June reports are complete (July-September reports are due Oct. 31, 2026, and 216 had been filed). In 2025, 451 employers reported payments to lobbyists totaling $24,916,055.76 on Schedule A, plus $1,328,678.38 on Schedule B; the two schedules are different kinds of spending and are not added together here. That Schedule A total counts some money twice: 9 lobbying businesses ($3,921,277.00) are registered as employers of their own lobbyists or subcontractors, mostly paying them with money their clients also report paying the firm. Those businesses are listed separately under lobbying_firms_as_employers and are not ranked among the clients. Names are as filed. A large amount means an organization paid heavily for lobbying; it does not show that any official acted because of it.
What is not here yet
- Amounts are for 2025, not 2026: the 2026 July-September employer reports are not due until Oct. 31, 2026, so 2026 totals are incomplete (kept separately under year_2026_to_date).
- The list of lobbying businesses registered as employers was made by hand from the registrations and summaries (see lobbying_firms_as_employers); a smaller business acting the same way may remain among the clients. Not yet checked one by one.
- Schedule B (other lobbying costs, such as in-house staff time) is shown for each client but not ranked or added to Schedule A.
- The lobbyist directory counts registrants, including four lobbying firms registered under the firm's name; how many individuals work under those firm registrations was not checked.
- APOC's employer report export carries only the current version of each quarterly report (amended reports replace the original); the summary was matched to the reports' Schedule B totals for 450 of 451 employers in 2025 (one, Inseparable Action, shows Schedule B in the summary but no 2025 report under that exact name).
- Gifts to public officials reported by employers and lobbyists' own reports were not analyzed.
- APOC's HTML report pages sometimes answer the workspace with a CAPTCHA (403); retrying from a fresh session worked. The APOC information site (apoc.doa.alaska.gov) home page was not read.
Gaps in the lobbying records as of the date checked.