What consulting-occupation donors give in federal races

Gerund used as a job title, a $314 mean

$6,916,859, 22,017 itemizations, and 1,301 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $314. Mean dollars per donor record are about $5,317. Repeat giving is about 17 itemizations per donor record.

22,017 lines from 1,301 records is a mid-to-high volume one-word stack. The $314 per-line mean sits near ADVERTISING and MEDICAL DOCTOR in this extract. The packet has no management-versus-IT split, no firm-size field, and no median gift.

1,301 donor records on 22,017 lines is a mid-to-high volume gerund pool: about 17 itemizations per record. The $314 per-line mean sits near MEDICAL DOCTOR and ADVERTISING. The packet has no management-versus-IT split, no firm-size field, and no party flag, so $6,916,859 cannot be read as a consulting-firm census.

CONSULTING is not CONSULTANT

The FEC record does not verify that the donor bills clients. Independent contractors, firm partners, and retirees can all type CONSULTING. Best-efforts rules do not force a uniform consulting vocabulary.

This page cites only $6,916,859, 22,017 contributions, and 1,301 donors. CONSULTANT, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, and ADVERTISING 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 consulting labels

1,301 donor records used CONSULTING on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed CONSULTING on some gifts and CONSULTANT on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or industry from the gerund. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $6,916,859.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 22,017 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 $6,916,859 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Do not add this occupation to industry pages

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A solo consultant and a Big Four partner share this occupation string if they typed CONSULTING. Adding $6,916,859 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the CONSULTING occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the gerund next to CONSULTANT and ADVERTISING.

CONSULTING dollars of $6,916,859 sit on 22,017 itemizations from 1,301 donor records. The gerund is stored separately from CONSULTANT 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 CONSULTING, dollars equal $6,916,859, contributions equal 22,017, donors equal 1,301, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

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

Reading CONSULTING as a one-word gerund key

CONSULTING in this extract is $6,916,859 on 22,017 itemizations from 1,301 donor records, or $6.9 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 CONSULTANT, ADVISOR, or SELF EMPLOYED may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact CONSULTING key is in $6,916,859.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $314 per contribution and about $5,317 per donor record, with roughly 17 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 1,301 donor records on 22,017 lines is a mid-to-high volume gerund pool, not a census of consulting-firm employees.

Industry pages should not be added to $6,916,859. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals CONSULTING, dollars equal $6,916,859, contributions equal 22,017, donors equal 1,301.

CONSULTING and CONSULTANT can describe overlapping people in ordinary speech and remain separate FEC strings. This page is only CONSULTING: $6,916,859, 22,017 contributions, 1,301 donors. The gerund is the stored key; CONSULTANT, if it exists as a page, is not rolled into $6,916,859 unless the extract merged it.

Questions

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

The CONSULTING occupation string is attached to $6,916,859 across 22,017 contributions and 1,301 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of consultants. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does CONSULTING include CONSULTANT?

Only if those donors typed CONSULTING. CONSULTANT is a separate key unless the extract merged them. This page covers CONSULTING: $6,916,859, 22,017 contributions, and 1,301 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 consulting-occupation contribution?

Dividing $6,916,859 by 22,017 itemizations yields about $314 per contribution. Dividing by 1,301 donors yields about $5,317 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 17 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing consulting prove client-billable work?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify billing. Quote 22,017 contributions and 1,301 donor records with the $6,916,859 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.