The Ferguson Enterprises Inc NOligarchy Profile
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Ferguson Enterprises Inc earns a NOligarchy Score of 81.34 out of 100 — where 100 represents a company with zero lobbying, zero political donations, zero fines, and no pay gap. Ferguson’s strongest performance is on political influence, where it has kept its hands entirely off the levers of government. The number pulling the score down is a stark CEO-to-worker pay gap on top of a workforce earning a median of just over $32,000 a year.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
38.9
Playing by the Rules
95.0
Score history — 23 quarters
Tier bands show where each quarter's score falls — no numeric y-axis needed. The dashed ring marks the year-over-year comparison point. Tap any quarter but the first to see its pillar breakdown.
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Political Access Grade: 100/100. Ferguson spent nothing on federal lobbying, made no Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions, and its executives reported no individual campaign contributions tied to the company during from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period). This is a genuine clean slate in Washington.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 38.62/100. A CEO earning 239 times the median worker’s pay — on top of a workforce earning a median of just over $32,000 a year — drives this grade down significantly. No stock buyback or dividend total is on the public record for the period, leaving the full picture of shareholder returns outside public view.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 94.1/100. Two workplace safety citations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), totaling $22,641 in fines, represent a minimal compliance footprint. In dollar terms these infractions are modest, and the grade reflects that.
Ferguson Enterprises Inc is the only company currently tracked in the Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers sector, making a meaningful peer comparison impossible. Its United States segment generated $29.25 billion, representing 9.8% of its market, and it is classified as a Challenger by scale, pulling in roughly $30.76 billion in annual revenue.
A Giant Pay Gap Inside a Company That Stays Quiet in Washington
Ferguson Enterprises Inc is unusual: a company doing roughly $30.76 billion in annual business that chose to spend nothing trying to shape federal policy. What it cannot escape is the internal arithmetic of who wins and who doesn’t inside the company itself. The CEO pocketed compensation equivalent to 239 years’ worth of a typical Ferguson worker’s earnings — while that typical worker brought home about $32,046 a year, barely enough to cover basic housing costs in most U.S. cities. That imbalance is the defining story here, because it exists without any lobbying apparatus to justify it and with a public record that leaves key financial decisions — specifically around stock buybacks and dividends — invisible to outside scrutiny.
No Footprint in Washington
From Q3 2024 through Q2 2026, Ferguson Enterprises Inc filed no federal lobbying disclosures under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), contributed nothing through a corporate PAC, and had no executive individual campaign contributions tied to the company on file with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The Senate LDA database shows a company that simply did not knock on Washington’s door during this period.
There are no external lobbying firms on retainer, no revolving-door hires from Capitol Hill, and no bills referenced in disclosure filings — because no filings were made. For a company of this scale, that is genuinely notable. Many of Ferguson’s peers in the building products and wholesale distribution business spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year lobbying on issues like trade tariffs, building codes, environmental regulations, and labor law. Ferguson, at least in the public record, chose not to.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Ferguson Enterprises Inc filed no federal lobbying and ran no corporate PAC in this window — the reserved seat at the witness table sits empty.
An Executive Pay Gap That the Numbers Speak For Themselves
Ferguson Enterprises Inc’s compensation data tells a sharp story about who benefits most inside the company. The CEO pay ratio is 239:1, according to the SEC DEF 14A. That means the CEO earned 239 times what the median Ferguson worker took home. The CEO’s total compensation in the most recent reported fiscal year was about $7.7 million. The median Ferguson employee earned $32,046 — a salary that leaves little cushion against an unexpected car repair or a medical bill.
Ferguson employs 35,245 people. Across that workforce, the gap is not a rounding error — it is a structural feature of how the company distributes the value its workers help create.
No stock buyback or dividend total is on the public record for the two-year period covered here, which means it is not possible from the public record to calculate how much cash was channeled to shareholders versus what remained available for worker earnings. That absence is itself an accountability gap: readers and workers cannot see what choices were made with surplus cash, and the company has not been required to summarize those figures in a way that makes them easy to find.
Because no buyback figures are on the record, neither a per-worker raise calculation nor an analysis of dividend policy can be responsibly made here. What can be said plainly is this: a company generating $30.76 billion in annual revenue, with a CEO earning about $7.7 million, pays its median worker $32,046 a year. The ratio — 239 to 1 — is not a clerical detail. It is a decision about who gets rewarded for Ferguson’s scale.
Two Safety Citations and a Government Check — at the Same Time
Over the two-year tracking period from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026, Ferguson Enterprises Inc accumulated two workplace safety violations, both cited by OSHA, totaling $22,641. Against $30.76 billion in annual revenue, that sum is negligible — and the 94.1/100 Playing by the Rules grade reflects it. Still, both citations fall in 2025, signaling workers encountering conditions that federal regulators judged unsafe.
The largest single fine was $15,888, issued in 2025, followed by a second citation of $6,753, also in 2025 — both for workplace safety or health violations. This two-year window is a slice of Ferguson’s full compliance docket, which can be reviewed in full at the source.
While OSHA was writing those citations, a government body was simultaneously handing Ferguson a public grant. In 2024, Ferguson received $370,304 in public subsidies — more than sixteen times the total it paid in fines across the entire two-year period. The same public sector that penalized Ferguson for endangering workers also wrote it a check. That is not illegal. But it is a data point worth sitting with.
$370,304
taxpayer subsidies
$22,641
regulatory fines
16.4:1
Ferguson Enterprises Inc collected $370,304 in taxpayer subsidies against $22,641 in regulatory fines — 16.4 subsidy dollars for every $1 in penalties.