What advisor donors give in federal races

A one-word rank under $5.8 million

$5,786,620 is the occupation-level dollar total. 17,537 is the itemization count. 902 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $330 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $6,415 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 19 itemizations per donor record. Seventeen thousand-plus lines from 902 donor records is a mid-to-high frequency pattern on a coarse job noun.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $330 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

A one-word occupation is a coarse bucket. Investment advisers, political advisers, and generic advisors can all land here—or on longer strings that never join this total.

Advisor, adviser, and senior advisor

ADVISOR versus ADVISER is a spelling split in FEC files. SENIOR ADVISOR is a different occupation key. LobbyVault does not merge those variants.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals ADVISOR after indexing. SENIOR ADVISOR, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, and ADVISER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ADVISOR.

What 902 donor records can and cannot show

902 donor records used ADVISOR on at least one matching itemization. 902 donor records used ADVISOR on at least one matching itemization. That is not a headcount of professional advisers. The one-word label is a coarse bucket.

A person who listed ADVISOR on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

What the occupation field cannot tell you

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An advisor at a wealth firm and one on a campaign staff share this occupation string if they typed ADVISOR. Adding $5,786,620 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the ADVISOR occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,786,620.

How to cite the advisor key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: ADVISOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,786,620 on 17,537 contributions from 902 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. The one-word label is not a workplace-coded rank and not a FINRA roster.

Reading ADVISOR as unprefixed free text

ADVISOR in this extract is $5,786,620 on 17,537 itemizations from 902 donor records, or $5.8 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. Advisor without a prefix is a coarse FEC occupation bucket, not a client-list census. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $330 per contribution and about $6,415 per donor record, with roughly 19 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. SENIOR ADVISOR, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, and ADVISER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ADVISOR. 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 $5,786,620. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ADVISOR, dollars equal $5,786,620, contributions equal 17,537, donors equal 902. 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 ($5.8 million) are the same headline amount as $5,786,620, 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 the shape of ADVISOR in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have advisor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ADVISOR sum to $5,786,620 across 17,537 contributions and 902 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is senior advisor included in this total?

No. SENIOR ADVISOR is a different occupation key. This page covers ADVISOR only: $5,786,620, 17,537 contributions, and 902 donors. Combining them would invent a total the packet does not publish. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does advisor mean a financial adviser?

Not from the occupation field alone. The same word appears across sectors. FINANCIAL ADVISOR is a different key if it appears as its own string. This page is $5,786,620 from 902 donor records. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I inspect the itemizations?

The ADVISOR occupation page lists indexed lines. Confirm amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total remains $5,786,620. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.