Who pays to lobby in Salem.
Registered lobbyists, the clients and employers they represent and what those clients reported spending on lobbying, from the Oregon Government Ethics Commission's public records lookup.
registered lobbyists
People with at least one 2026-2027 registration listed as active or terminated, counted once each by the Commission's FilerID, so it includes those whose registrations have since ended (899 have one active now). The lookup's own total for the period is 1,004: it also counts people whose only listings are unconfirmed, pending, cancelled or declined.
clients (lobbyist employers)
Clients and employers with at least one 2026-2027 registration listed as active or terminated, counted once each by the Commission's FilerID (1,121 have one active now). The lookup's own total for the period is 1,214, counted the same wider way as for lobbyists. These clients hold 2,986 active or terminated registrations, one per lobbyist and client pair.
| Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association | $307,918.28 |
| Associated General Contractors - Oregon Columbia C Name exactly as the Commission's lookup lists it; it appears to stop short at 50 characters. | $288,816.44 |
| City of Portland | $282,917.32 |
| Oregon School Boards Association | $278,076.13 |
| Coalition of Oregon School Administrators | $275,535.43 |
| Oregon Forest Industries Council | $257,652.00 |
| Oregon Realtors | $255,375.00 |
| PacificSource | $254,105.68 |
| NW Natural | $241,880.00 |
| Oregon Nurses Association | $241,050.00 |
| Bureau of Labor and Industries | $224,956.19 |
| Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America | $224,789.26 |
| Oregon School Employees Association | $217,989.36 |
| Teacher Standards and Practices Commission of Oregon | $213,906.03 |
| Special Districts Association of Oregon | $212,381.29 |
| The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde | $207,000.00 |
| Portland General Electric | $200,847.91 |
| Google LLC and its Affiliates | $199,601.49 |
| Oregon Cable Telecommunications Association (OCTA) | $195,741.76 |
| City of Hillsboro | $192,046.00 |
| Oregon Dental Association | $188,160.00 |
| League of Oregon Cities | $185,929.85 |
| Port of Portland | $181,702.00 |
| Portland State University | $181,230.33 |
| Oregon Bankers Association | $174,756.00 |
Total the client reported spending on lobbying on its quarterly expenditure reports to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission for January through September 2026, added across the three quarters filed so far. The law has clients report all money spent on lobbying on their behalf, leaving out a lobbyist's living and travel costs; the Commission's guide says that can take in pay, reimbursements, overhead, office space, equipment and phone costs, with a share estimated for staff who do other work too. It is the client's whole lobbying spending as reported, not what any lobbyist was paid, and not a full-year figure.
Sources: Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Public Records Lookup: Expenditures, Lobbyist Client/Employer, 2026 (and 2025); Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Public Records Lookup: Registrations, 2026-2027 (and 2024-2025); Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Lobby Registrations; Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Guide to Lobbying in Oregon (2021 revision); Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Lobby Reporting Requirements; Oregon Revised Statutes chapter 171 (ORS 171.725 - 171.785).
How to read this
Oregon has a lobbyist register with the Government Ethics Commission within three business days of agreeing to lobby for pay, or after passing 24 hours of lobbying or $100 in lobbying expenses in a calendar quarter, with a separate registration for each client or employer. Registrations end when terminated or on Dec. 31 of each odd-numbered year, so the current period is 2026-2027 and its registrations run to Dec. 31, 2027 unless ended sooner. Clients include companies, associations, tribes and public agencies such as cities and state agencies. Clients and lobbyists each file a report every quarter, and the two reports measure different things: the client reports its total spending on lobbying, while the lobbyist reports food, refreshments and entertainment. The table uses the client reports only. Registering and spending on lobbying are lawful and public; these records do not show that any official acted because of it.
What is not here yet
- 2026 spending covers only the first three quarters; the fourth-quarter report is due Jan. 15, 2027. Reports filed or amended after Nov. 2, 2026 are not included.
- The lookup does not define its registration statuses. We left out listings marked unconfirmed, pending, cancelled or declined because the Commission's guide says a registration is not valid until the client accepts it; unconfirmed, pending and cancelled listings carry no registration date. That choice is ours; the lookup's wider totals are given beside each count.
- Counts follow the Commission's FilerIDs, and related organizations with separate IDs are not combined. Among active or terminated 2026-2027 registrations, 1 client name (city of sandy) and 2 lobbyist names appear under two IDs. We did not check whether the lobbyists with the same name are one person or two.
- 118 of the 1,174 clients on the 2026 list do not show all three quarters as filed. A client that registered or ended partway through the year may owe fewer reports, and we did not check each one; the expenditure list shows $0.00 for a quarter with no report, so $0.00 alone does not mean a report said zero.
- 19 clients with an active or terminated 2026-2027 registration are not on the 2026 expenditure list; 19 of them registered on or after Oct. 1, 2026, too late for a report to be due yet.
- Only each client's total was collected. The reports' breakdown (the amount paid to each lobbyist or firm, and itemized spending for officials) sits one page per report behind each client, thousands of pages, and was not pulled, so nothing here says what any lobbyist was paid.
- Only the top 25 clients' amounts were checked against their detail pages, and those pages were read, not saved, because they list a contact person's address, phone and email. None of those 75 quarterly reports show the status Amended.
- On the lookup's lobbyist expenditure list, the Total column does not equal the sum of the quarters for 40 of 958 rows, and its overall total differs from the quarter totals as well. Only the quarter figures are kept here; the difference was not explained on the site.
- The Commission's guide is its 2021 revision; it was used for how reports work, and the statute was read alongside it.
- data.oregon.gov catalog searches for lobby, lobbyist and government ethics returned no datasets on Nov. 2, 2026, so the lookup is the only source used.
Gaps in the lobbying records as of the date checked.