What ASSOCIATE donors give in federal races

Vague rank label, high repeat

$14,867,080 is the occupation-level dollar total. 55,072 is the itemization count. 2,045 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $270. Mean dollars per donor record are about $7,270. Repeat giving is about 27 itemizations per donor record.

2,045 donor records against 55,072 lines is a modest pool generating many schedules. The per-line mean of about $270 sits with other generic workplace titles rather than concentrated C-suite keys.

The packet does not say whether the donor was a law-firm associate, a sales associate, or a research associate. It only supplies the three ASSOCIATE facts.

ASSOCIATE is not a specialty title

Longer strings such as ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, SALES ASSOCIATE, and RESEARCH ASSOCIATE — if they exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to ASSOCIATE. This page cites only $14,867,080, 55,072 contributions, and 2,045 donors.

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. Someone who listed associate as a shorthand for a longer title may land here. The FEC does not recode that noun into a standard occupational classification.

What the dollars do not measure

$14,867,080 is not a law-firm PAC total and not a retail-headcount census. Industry pages group employers. An associate at a firm and an associate at a store share this occupation string if they typed ASSOCIATE.

Party is not in the occupation column. Open the ASSOCIATE occupation page for recipient rows rather than reading bloc preference from a rank word. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $14.9 million.

Occupation versus industry for a rank noun

A donor who listed ASSOCIATE on some gifts and ATTORNEY on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. Adding those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Use the occupations index to see neighboring rank and legal titles as separate keys. Use industry pages for employer-side cuts.

Limits and source

Occupation is free text. Extra words (senior associate, associate director) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to ASSOCIATE. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $14,867,080.

2,045 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

Generic rank text in the bulk extract

ASSOCIATE in this extract is $14,867,080 on 55,072 itemizations from 2,045 donor records. About 27 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. Mean line size is about $270; mean dollars per donor record are about $7,270. Longer associate titles, if stored as other keys, stay outside this total.

Industry pages should not be added to $14,867,080. The rank noun is not a NAICS code and not a firm headcount. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ASSOCIATE, dollars equal $14,867,080, contributions equal 55,072, donors equal 2,045. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only.

2,045 donor records against 55,072 lines is a modest pool generating many schedules. Senior associate and associate director create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to ASSOCIATE. The packet does not split law, sales, or research. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

Keep ASSOCIATE on its own line as a generic rank word. Compact millions ($14.9 million) are the same headline amount as $14,867,080, rounded to one decimal place. 2,045 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Quote occupation equals ASSOCIATE, then $14,867,080, 55,072 contributions, and 2,045 donors. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring rank and legal titles.

Law, sales, and research associates share ASSOCIATE only if they typed that single rank word. 55,072 itemizations from 2,045 donor records produced $14,867,080. About 27 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. Longer associate titles stay outside. This is not a firm headcount. Cite the exact string.

Firm headcount is not in the packet. 2,045 donor records is not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Restate the citation as occupation equals ASSOCIATE, dollars equal $14,867,080, contributions equal 55,072, donors equal 2,045.

Questions

How much have ASSOCIATE donors given in FEC records?

Occupation ASSOCIATE is attached to $14,867,080 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 55,072 contributions and 2,045 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a law-firm headcount. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does ASSOCIATE mean law-firm associates?

Only if they typed ASSOCIATE. The packet does not split law, sales, or research. This page covers the exact string: $14,867,080, 55,072 contributions, and 2,045 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 ASSOCIATE contribution?

Dividing $14,867,080 by 55,072 itemizations yields about $270 per contribution. Dividing by 2,045 donors yields about $7,270 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are associate attorneys included?

Only if they typed ASSOCIATE. Longer strings are other keys unless the bulk extract normalized them here. Quote 55,072 contributions and 2,045 donor records with the $14,867,080 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.