What business representative donors give in federal races

High-frequency receipts under $5.6 million

$5,630,964 is the occupation-level dollar total. 46,235 is the itemization count. 1,479 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $122 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,807 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 31 itemizations per donor record. Forty-six thousand-plus lines from 1,479 donor records is a high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a modest mean dollars per line.

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 $122 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

That shape often fits repeat itemization, including PAC-related receipts, but this packet has no channel split. This guide does not assign percentages to those mechanisms.

Union title and sales title share the same words

BUSINESS AGENT, UNION REPRESENTATIVE, and BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. A donor who files BUSINESS AGENT in one cycle and BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE in another is split.

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 BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE after indexing. BUSINESS AGENT, UNION REPRESENTATIVE, and REPRESENTATIVE remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE.

What 1,479 donor records can and cannot show

1,479 donor records used BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE on at least one matching itemization. 1,479 donor records used BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE on at least one matching itemization. That is not a headcount of union business reps. Sales staff who use the same two words can appear.

A person who listed BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE 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.

Occupation versus employer-sector pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Industry pages group employers. A business representative at a local union and a sales business representative at a vendor share this occupation string if they typed BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE. Adding $5,630,964 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE 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 $5,630,964.

How to cite the business representative key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,630,964 on 46,235 contributions from 1,479 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 title is not a union-membership roster and not a sales-industry total.

Reading BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE as uncoded title text

BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE in this extract is $5,630,964 on 46,235 itemizations from 1,479 donor records, or $5.6 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. Business representative is an uncoded title; the FEC does not flag union versus sales uses. 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 $122 per contribution and about $3,807 per donor record, with roughly 31 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. BUSINESS AGENT, UNION REPRESENTATIVE, and REPRESENTATIVE remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE. 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 $5,630,964. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE, dollars equal $5,630,964, contributions equal 46,235, donors equal 1,479. 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 ($5.6 million) are the same headline amount as $5,630,964, 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 BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have business representative donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE sum to $5,630,964 across 46,235 contributions and 1,479 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.

Does business representative mean a union job?

Not from the occupation field alone. The same two words appear in labor and sales contexts. BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE still sums to $5,630,964 from 46,235 contributions and 1,479 donor records. Check employer on individual rows for workplace context. 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.

Why are there 46,235 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,479 donor records add rows. About 31 lines per record and about $122 per contribution are means on $5,630,964. 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.

Is business agent included?

Only if the occupation field equals BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE. BUSINESS AGENT is a different key. This page is $5,630,964, 46,235 lines, and 1,479 donors. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.