What controller-occupation donors give in federal races

High-volume finance rank, a $194 mean

$7,491,629, 38,663 itemizations, and 1,734 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $194. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,320. Repeat giving is about 22 itemizations per donor record.

38,663 lines from 1,734 records is a high-repeat finance-rank stack. The $194 per-line mean sits near BOOKKEEPER and below TREASURER on a per-itemization basis. The packet has no CPA field and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

1,734 donor records on 38,663 lines is a high-repeat finance-rank pool: about 22 itemizations per record. The $194 per-line mean is close to PROPERTY MANAGER and well below TREASURER. The packet has no CPA field, no public-versus-private split, and no party flag, so $7,491,629 cannot be read as a sitting-controller census.

CONTROLLER is not CFO and not BOOKKEEPER

The FEC record does not verify that the donor is a sitting corporate controller. Nonprofit finance staff, plant controllers, and retirees can all type CONTROLLER. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled accounting vocabulary.

This page cites only $7,491,629, 38,663 contributions, and 1,734 donors. CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, TREASURER, and BOOKKEEPER 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 accounting titles

1,734 donor records used CONTROLLER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed CONTROLLER on some gifts and ACCOUNTANT on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or entity size from the one-word rank. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $7,491,629.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 38,663 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 $7,491,629 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Industry pages group employers, not this rank

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A manufacturing controller and a hospital controller share this occupation string if they typed CONTROLLER. Adding $7,491,629 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the CONTROLLER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the rank next to TREASURER and CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

CONTROLLER dollars of $7,491,629 sit on 38,663 itemizations from 1,734 donor records. High line count with a $194 mean is the citation pattern, not a typical controller bonus. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code and never enter this total.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals CONTROLLER, dollars equal $7,491,629, contributions equal 38,663, donors equal 1,734, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

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

Reading CONTROLLER as a one-word finance rank

CONTROLLER in this extract is $7,491,629 on 38,663 itemizations from 1,734 donor records, or $7.5 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. People who type COMPTROLLER, CFO, or ACCOUNTANT may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact CONTROLLER key is in $7,491,629.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $194 per contribution and about $4,320 per donor record, with roughly 22 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 1,734 donor records on 38,663 lines is a high-repeat finance-rank pool, not a census of sitting controllers.

Industry pages should not be added to $7,491,629. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals CONTROLLER, dollars equal $7,491,629, contributions equal 38,663, donors equal 1,734.

CONTROLLER, COMPTROLLER, TREASURER, and BOOKKEEPER can describe overlapping people in ordinary speech and remain separate FEC strings. This page is only CONTROLLER: $7,491,629, 38,663 contributions, 1,734 donors. Spelling matters: COMPTROLLER, if it exists as a key, is not rolled into $7,491,629 unless the extract merged it.

Questions

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

The CONTROLLER occupation string is attached to $7,491,629 across 38,663 contributions and 1,734 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of sitting controllers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does CONTROLLER include comptroller and CFO?

Only if those donors typed CONTROLLER. COMPTROLLER and CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER are separate keys unless the extract merged them. This page covers CONTROLLER: $7,491,629, 38,663 contributions, and 1,734 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average controller contribution?

Dividing $7,491,629 by 38,663 itemizations yields about $194 per contribution. Dividing by 1,734 donors yields about $4,320 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 22 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing controller prove a corporate finance office?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify corporate form. Quote 38,663 contributions and 1,734 donor records with the $7,491,629 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.