Phil Ammann
Last year proved lucrative for the team at Adams St. Advocates.
New compensation reports show the duo of Claudia Davant and Amy Bisceglia pulled an average of $505,000 in lobbying fees — $255,000 through the Legislature and another $250,000 through the executive branch.
Florida lobbyists report their pay in ranges covering $5,000 increments up to $60,000. Florida Politics uses the middle number of each range to estimate lobbying pay.
Adams St. Advocates listed 11 clients on their legislative lobbying compensation report, topped by the Florida Pharmacy Association, which paid an estimated $60,000 for legislative and executive lobbying help in 2022.
A trio of clients followed at the $15,000 level: Broward County, the Florida Pharmacy Association and KPMG, a global professional services and accounting firm. The legislative sheet was capped off by eight others in the $5,000 compensation range.
Next on the executive report is Unisys Corporation, with $40,000 for each branch, followed by the Mental Health Association in Indian River County ($30,000 legislative and $25,000 executive).
Other clients on the $20,000 list include HealthPlan Data Solutions, cybersecurity firm Mandiant — FireEye and the health care diagnostic manufacturer Quidel Corporation.
Lobbying firms also list overall pay ranges on each compensation report. According to those lines, Davant and Bisceglia earned between $100,000 and $250,000 in legislative lobbying pay and between $200,000 to just under $400,000 in firm-level executive and legislative ranges.
If each of their contracts came in at top dollar, the pair could have earned as much as $870,000 last year.
Florida lobbyists and lobbying firms faced a Feb. 14 deadline to file compensation reports for the period covering Oct. 1 through Dec. 31. Compensation reports for the first quarter are due to the state on May 15.
