What CHAIRMAN & CEO donors give in federal races

Fewer lines, heavier dollars per line

Among occupation strings near $38 million, CHAIRMAN & CEO is concentrated: $38,522,396 on 6,387 itemizations from 1,029 donors. Mean contribution size is about $6,031. Mean dollars per donor record is about $37,437. Repeat giving is about 6 contributions per donor record.

That shape resembles other dual-title executive keys more than high-volume professional labels that post similar headline dollars on a hundred thousand lines. The packet has no median.

1,029 donor records is a small pool. Treat it as contributor records that used this exact ampersand title, not as a count of people who chair boards and also serve as chief executive.

CHAIRMAN & CEO is not CHAIRMAN and not CEO

CHAIRMAN without the CEO clause is a different occupation page. CEO and PRESIDENT & CEO are also different keys. Combining them without showing each source total would mix punctuation and rank the bulk file kept apart. This page cites only $38,522,396, 6,387 contributions, and 1,029 donors.

FEC best-efforts rules do not map titles to a corporate-governance ontology. Assistants, software defaults, and personal habit produce parallel buckets.

Donor-record limits

Address changes and suffix differences can split one person into multiple records. A person who listed CHAIRMAN & CEO on some gifts and CHAIRMAN on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines. Occupation is per transaction, not a lifetime identity field.

LobbyVault does not infer party from the title. Recipient committees are a different join.

Occupation versus industry

Industry pages group employers. Dual-title executives in different sectors share this occupation string if they typed CHAIRMAN & CEO. Adding $38,522,396 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the CHAIRMAN & CEO occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place this string next to CHAIRMAN and other executive spellings.

Citation that keeps the ampersand

Name the exact string: CHAIRMAN & CEO itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $38,522,396 on 6,387 contributions from 1,029 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money, not a board-roster match.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules.

Board-and-executive punctuation in the bulk extract

CHAIRMAN & CEO in this extract is $38,522,396 on 6,387 itemizations from 1,029 donor records, or $38.5 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. Governance writers often want a single chairman-CEO number. The honest method is to keep CHAIRMAN & CEO on its own line and footnote CHAIRMAN and CEO. 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 $6,031 per contribution and about $37,437 per donor record, with roughly 6 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as CHAIRMAN, CEO, and PRESIDENT & CEO remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to CHAIRMAN & CEO. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,029 donor records cannot be recast as the number of people who legally hold both seats. It is a contributor-record count for this ampersand title.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $38,522,396. A person who listed CHAIRMAN & CEO 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 CHAIRMAN & CEO, dollars equal $38,522,396, contributions equal 6,387, donors equal 1,029. 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 ($38.5 million) are the same headline amount as $38,522,396, 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 CHAIRMAN & CEO 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.

Questions

How much have CHAIRMAN & CEO donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list CHAIRMAN & CEO sum to $38,522,396 across 6,387 contributions and 1,029 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string filter, not a combined chairman-plus-CEO cluster. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is CHAIRMAN included in this total?

No. CHAIRMAN, CEO, and PRESIDENT & CEO are separate occupation strings. This page covers CHAIRMAN & CEO only: $38,522,396, 6,387 contributions, and 1,029 donors. Mixing keys without naming each source total changes the unit. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why is the average so high for CHAIRMAN & CEO?

Dividing $38,522,396 by 6,387 itemizations yields about $6,031 per contribution, and dividing by 1,029 donors yields about $37,437 per donor record. Those means reflect a small line count relative to the dollars. They are not medians. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does this prove chairmen-CEOs funded a party?

No. The occupation column does not encode party. $38,522,396 is money on itemizations that carry this dual title. Recipient committees are a different field. Quote 6,387 contributions and 1,029 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.