What ADMINISTRATOR donors give in federal races
Donors who listed ADMINISTRATOR as occupation posted $27,323,501 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those receipts are 143,643 contributions from 5,670 donor records. ADMINISTRATOR is a vague English noun: it can mean school, hospital, systems, or office administration. On FEC forms it is still one occupation string. In compact form the occupation total is $27.3 million.
Key figures
- ADMINISTRATOR itemizations sum to $27,323,501 from 143,643 contributions and 5,670 donors.
- The noun is ambiguous self-reported text, not a sector census.
- Mean amounts are about $190 per contribution and about $4,819 per donor record.
- Quote the 143,643 contribution count with the dollars so the high line volume is visible.
High line volume under $27.3 million
Mean contribution size is about $190. Mean dollars per donor record is about $4,819. Repeat giving is about 25 itemizations per donor record. The shape is frequent small itemizations from a mid-size donor pool.
A citation that quotes only $27,323,501 hides 143,643 lines. Quote the contribution count with the dollars.
These means are arithmetic. The packet has no median and no sector split.
One noun, several workplaces
The FEC occupation column does not split school administrators from hospital administrators or systems administrators. Researchers who need one of those senses must use employer text or another field; this overlay does not invent that split.
This page cites only $27,323,501, 143,643 contributions, and 5,670 donors. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and MANAGER remain other keys.
Donor-record limits
5,670 donor records used ADMINISTRATOR on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed ADMINISTRATOR on some gifts and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.
Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the noun.
Industry pages are not this filter
Industry tables group employers. Administrators in education, health, and other sectors share this occupation string if they typed ADMINISTRATOR. Adding $27,323,501 to an industry total double-counts.
Open the ADMINISTRATOR occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring titles as separate keys.
Citation
Quote occupation equals ADMINISTRATOR, dollars equal $27,323,501, contributions equal 143,643, donors equal 5,670, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.
Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Keep the line count in the sentence so the modest mean is visible.
School, hospital, and systems senses in one bucket
ADMINISTRATOR in this extract is $27,323,501 on 143,643 itemizations from 5,670 donor records, or $27.3 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. Education reporters and health reporters will both find this noun. Neither group can claim the whole $27,323,501 without an employer filter this packet does not have. 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 $190 per contribution and about $4,819 per donor record, with roughly 25 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and MANAGER remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to ADMINISTRATOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 143,643 lines from 5,670 donor records is why the mean gift is about $190: a high-repeat administrative label, not a superintendent census.
Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $27,323,501. A person who listed ADMINISTRATOR 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 ADMINISTRATOR, dollars equal $27,323,501, contributions equal 143,643, donors equal 5,670. 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 ($27.3 million) are the same headline amount as $27,323,501, 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 ADMINISTRATOR 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.
Cite ADMINISTRATOR as donor-typed occupation text on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault: $27,323,501, 143,643 contributions, 5,670 donor records. Do not substitute a school-administrator census or an education-industry total.
Questions
- How much have ADMINISTRATOR donors given in FEC records?
- Itemizations that list ADMINISTRATOR sum to $27,323,501 across 143,643 contributions and 5,670 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a census of school or hospital administrators. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
- Does ADMINISTRATOR mean school administrator?
- Not necessarily. Occupation is self-reported free text. The same string can cover school, hospital, systems, and office roles. This packet has no employer split. The matching facts remain $27,323,501, 143,643 contributions, and 5,670 donors. 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 ADMINISTRATOR contribution?
- Dividing $27,323,501 by 143,643 itemizations yields about $190 per contribution. Dividing by 5,670 donors yields about $4,819 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 25 lines per donor record. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
- Can I add ADMINISTRATOR dollars to an education industry total?
- Not without double-counting, and not as a substitute for a school-only filter. Industry pages group employers. Occupation ADMINISTRATOR is a contributor-title filter. Quote 143,643 contributions and 5,670 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.
Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.