What administrative assistant donors give in federal races

Sixty thousand lines, small mean check

$5,091,998 is the occupation-level dollar total. 60,491 is the itemization count. 1,300 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $84. Mean dollars per donor record are about $3,917. Repeat giving is about 47 itemizations per donor record.

60,491 lines from 1,300 records is a high-repeat pattern. The per-line mean of about $84 is among the smaller means in this harvest band, so the contribution count is the number that explains how $5.1M accumulated. Recurring small gifts can raise the line count without raising the mean.

These means are not typical-check estimates. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no public-versus-private split, and no party series. A few large lines can still sit inside a low average.

Administrative assistant is not executive assistant

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, SECRETARY, and ADMIN ASSISTANT — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. This page cites only $5,091,998, 60,491 contributions, and 1,300 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no HR-grade check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT after indexing. AA and ADMIN remain other occupation pages unless they normalized here.

Why the line count outruns the donor count

About 47 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate among occupation keys near $5.1M. Recurring small gifts, payroll deductions, and multi-committee giving can all raise the line count. The packet does not split those mechanisms. Quote 60,491 contributions with the dollars so readers see the shape of the bucket.

1,300 donor records is not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Address variants can inflate the donor count. Occupation is stored per transaction: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT on some gifts and EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT on others splits activity across keys.

Keep employer industry tables separate

Industry pages group employer-side categories. An administrative assistant at a law firm and one at a school district share this occupation string if they typed ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. Adding $5,091,998 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,091,998.

Limits, source, and citation

Occupation is free text. Extra words (senior administrative assistant) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data.

A citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, dollars equal $5,091,998, contributions equal 60,491, donors equal 1,300. Compact millions ($5.1M) are the same headline amount rounded to one decimal place. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT as high-volume support text

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT in this extract is $5,091,998 on 60,491 itemizations from 1,300 donor records, or $5.1M 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.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $84 per contribution and about $3,917 per donor record, with roughly 47 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT remains another occupation page unless the extract normalized it here. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,091,998. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, dollars equal $5,091,998, contributions equal 60,491, donors equal 1,300. 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. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see how a $84 mean line produced $5.1M. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have administrative assistant donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT sum to $5,091,998, or $5.1M, across 60,491 contributions and 1,300 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a count of working assistants. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are executive assistants included?

Only if they typed ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: $5,091,998, 60,491 contributions, and 1,300 donors. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Why are there so many administrative assistant contributions?

60,491 itemizations from 1,300 donors implies about 47 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $84. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT prove current employment?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify an HR file. Quote 60,491 contributions and 1,300 donor records with the dollars. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.