What ACCOUNTANT donors give in federal races

A high-volume occupation string

203,733 itemizations against $37,845,841 implies about $186 per contribution, a modest mean among professional labels in this harvest. 8,434 donor records imply about $4,487 per donor and about 24 contributions per donor record. The shape is frequent itemizing rather than a few large checks.

The contribution count is the fact that most often gets dropped. A brief that quotes only $37.8 million can sound like concentrated money; 203,733 lines contradict that picture even without a distribution.

These means are not typical-check estimates. The FEC file does not publish a median for this occupation field.

ACCOUNTANT is not CPA

CPA is a different occupation page with its own facts. Donors who write the credential abbreviation land there; donors who write the job noun land here. Combining ACCOUNTANT and CPA without showing both source totals would mix keys the bulk file kept apart. This guide cites only $37,845,841, 203,733 contributions, and 8,434 donors.

The field is not a census of licensed accountants. Bookkeepers, staff accountants, retirees, and people using the noun loosely can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not verify a state board license.

Donor records versus unique humans

8,434 donor records used ACCOUNTANT on at least one matching itemization. Address changes and suffix differences can split records. A person who listed ACCOUNTANT on some gifts and CPA on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. LobbyVault does not infer party from the noun.

Do not fold this into an industry total

Industry pages group employers. Accountants at public firms and accountants inside corporations share this occupation string if they typed ACCOUNTANT. Adding occupation dollars to industry dollars double-counts.

Open the ACCOUNTANT occupation page for the itemized list. Use the occupations index to see CPA as a neighboring row with its own packet facts.

Source and citation

Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations, occupation self-reported, indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $37.8 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract.

A usable sentence keeps the filter: occupation equals ACCOUNTANT, dollars equal $37,845,841, contributions equal 203,733, donors equal 8,434.

Why 203,733 lines are the story under $37.8 million

ACCOUNTANT in this extract is $37,845,841 on 203,733 itemizations from 8,434 donor records, or $37.8 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. The job noun draws a thicker stack of small itemizations than the three-letter credential. That is a vocabulary split, not a finding about who is more political. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $186 per contribution and about $4,487 per donor record, with roughly 24 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as CPA and longer credential phrases remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to ACCOUNTANT. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. About 24 contributions per donor record means many of the 8,434 records reappear. Repeat giving is a schedule fact, not a bloc.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $37,845,841. A person who listed ACCOUNTANT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines, because occupation is stored per transaction. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ACCOUNTANT, dollars equal $37,845,841, contributions equal 203,733, donors equal 8,434. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($37.8 million) are the same headline amount as $37,845,841, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see whether ACCOUNTANT is a high-volume stack, a concentrated pool, or a high-repeat status label. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have ACCOUNTANT donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ACCOUNTANT sum to $37,845,841 across 203,733 contributions and 8,434 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a licensed-accountant census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is CPA included in the ACCOUNTANT total?

No. CPA is a separate occupation string. This page covers ACCOUNTANT only: $37,845,841, 203,733 contributions, and 8,434 donors. Combining the two without naming both keys changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average ACCOUNTANT contribution?

Dividing $37,845,841 by 203,733 itemizations yields about $186 per contribution. Dividing by 8,434 donors yields about $4,487 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. The high line count is part of the citation. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does this total prove accountants funded a party?

No. The occupation column does not encode party. $37,845,841 is money on itemizations that carry this job noun. Recipient committees are a different field. Quote 203,733 contributions and 8,434 donor records with the dollars. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.