What advertising-occupation donors give in federal races

Industry word used as a job title

$7,811,913, 27,634 itemizations, and 1,247 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $283. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,265. Repeat giving is about 22 itemizations per donor record.

27,634 lines from 1,247 records is a high-repeat one-word stack. The $283 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume. The packet has no media-versus-digital split, no seniority field, and no median gift.

1,247 donor records on 27,634 lines is a high-repeat one-word pool: about 22 itemizations per record. The $283 per-line mean is close to LAW PROFESSOR’s $290 even though the titles describe different work. The packet has no agency-versus-in-house split, no seniority field, and no party flag, so $7,811,913 cannot be read as an advertising-industry census.

ADVERTISING is not ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE

The FEC record does not verify that the donor works at an agency. Account managers, media buyers, freelancers, and retirees can all type ADVERTISING. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled creative-industry vocabulary.

This page cites only $7,811,913, 27,634 contributions, and 1,247 donors. MARKETING, CONSULTING, and ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them. Combining those strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC occupation to a homemade cluster.

Donor records and dual creative titles

1,247 donor records used ADVERTISING on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed ADVERTISING on some gifts and MARKETING on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or agency size from the one-word string. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $7,811,913.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 27,634 lines are occupation-side totals only. Refunds, redesignations, and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Do not treat $7,811,913 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Do not add this occupation to industry pages

Industry pages group employer-side categories. An agency founder and a junior buyer share this occupation string if they typed ADVERTISING. Adding $7,811,913 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the ADVERTISING occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the one-word key next to MARKETING and CONSULTING.

ADVERTISING dollars of $7,811,913 sit on 27,634 itemizations from 1,247 donor records. The one-word occupation is not an employer NAICS rollup and should not be added to industry-page totals. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code and never enter this total.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals ADVERTISING, dollars equal $7,811,913, contributions equal 27,634, donors equal 1,247, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Quote the three facts together so the high-repeat mean is visible next to the headline dollars. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules.

Reading ADVERTISING as a one-word occupation key

ADVERTISING in this extract is $7,811,913 on 27,634 itemizations from 1,247 donor records, or $7.8 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. People who type AD EXEC, COPYWRITER, or MARKETING may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact ADVERTISING key is in $7,811,913.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $283 per contribution and about $6,265 per donor record, with roughly 22 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 1,247 donor records on 27,634 lines is a high-repeat one-word pool, not a census of advertising-agency employees.

Industry pages should not be added to $7,811,913. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ADVERTISING, dollars equal $7,811,913, contributions equal 27,634, donors equal 1,247.

ADVERTISING as an occupation string is not the same cut as an industry page that groups advertising employers. This page is only ADVERTISING: $7,811,913, 27,634 contributions, 1,247 donors. MARKETING and CONSULTING remain other occupation keys. Adding occupation dollars to industry dollars double-counts the same itemized receipts. Candidate and committee pages remain the recipient-side lookup.

Questions

How much have advertising-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The ADVERTISING occupation string is attached to $7,811,913 across 27,634 contributions and 1,247 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not an industry NAICS total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does ADVERTISING include marketing and consulting titles?

Only if those donors typed ADVERTISING. MARKETING and CONSULTING are separate keys unless the extract merged them. This page covers ADVERTISING: $7,811,913, 27,634 contributions, and 1,247 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average advertising-occupation contribution?

Dividing $7,811,913 by 27,634 itemizations yields about $283 per contribution. Dividing by 1,247 donors yields about $6,265 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 22 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing advertising prove agency employment?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify employer type. Quote 27,634 contributions and 1,247 donor records with the $7,811,913 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.