What CONTRACTOR donors give in federal races

Trade-or-status word with mid-volume lines

$30,356,058, 92,735 itemizations, and 6,738 donor records describe this occupation filter. Mean contribution size is about $327. Mean dollars per donor record is about $4,505. Repeat giving is about 14 itemizations per donor record.

Those means sit with other mid-volume labels. They do not tell you whether the donor pours concrete, writes software on contract, or bids federal work. The packet has no employer cross-tab.

These means are arithmetic. The packet has no median.

Contractor is not a construction census

Occupation is self-reported free text. SELF-EMPLOYED, OWNER, and trade-specific titles remain other keys unless the bulk extract normalized them to CONTRACTOR. This page cites only $30,356,058, 92,735 contributions, and 6,738 donors.

The FEC record does not verify a contractor license. Industry pages that group construction employers are a different cut and should not be added to this total.

Donor records versus unique humans

6,738 donor records used CONTRACTOR on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed CONTRACTOR on some gifts and OWNER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the noun.

Why 92,735 contributions belong in the quote

A $30.4 million headline with 92,735 lines is frequent itemizing. Dropping the line count makes the money sound more concentrated than the file shows.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

Where to read the rows

Open the CONTRACTOR occupation page for matching itemizations. Use the occupations index to see SELF-EMPLOYED and OWNER as neighboring keys.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Quote occupation equals CONTRACTOR, then the three numbers.

Independent work, construction, and federal bidding in one noun

CONTRACTOR in this extract is $30,356,058 on 92,735 itemizations from 6,738 donor records, or $30.4 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. Procurement databases tag vendors. FEC occupation tags whatever the donor typed. CONTRACTOR in this index is the latter. 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 $327 per contribution and about $4,505 per donor record, with roughly 14 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as SELF-EMPLOYED, OWNER, and trade-specific titles remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to CONTRACTOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 92,735 lines from 6,738 donor records is a mid-volume status-or-trade key, not a count of licensed general contractors.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $30,356,058. A person who listed CONTRACTOR 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 CONTRACTOR, dollars equal $30,356,058, contributions equal 92,735, donors equal 6,738. 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 ($30.4 million) are the same headline amount as $30,356,058, 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 CONTRACTOR 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.

Cite CONTRACTOR as donor-typed occupation text on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault: $30,356,058, 92,735 contributions, 6,738 donor records. Do not substitute a construction-license roster or a NAICS contractor total.

Questions

How much have CONTRACTOR donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list CONTRACTOR sum to $30,356,058 across 92,735 contributions and 6,738 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a licensed-contractor census and not a construction NAICS total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does CONTRACTOR mean construction only?

Not necessarily. Occupation is self-reported free text. Independent contractors in other fields can use the same noun. This packet has no trade split. The matching facts remain $30,356,058, 92,735 contributions, and 6,738 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 CONTRACTOR contribution?

Dividing $30,356,058 by 92,735 itemizations yields about $327 per contribution. Dividing by 6,738 donors yields about $4,505 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Can I add CONTRACTOR dollars to a construction industry page?

Not without double-counting. Industry pages group employers. Occupation CONTRACTOR is a contributor-title filter. Quote 92,735 contributions and 6,738 donor records with the $30,356,058 headline. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.