What counselor donors give in federal races

High volume under an ambiguous $5.0M label

$5,001,105 is the occupation-level dollar total. 48,327 is the itemization count. 1,013 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $103. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,937. Repeat giving is about 48 itemizations per donor record.

48,327 lines from 1,013 records is a high-repeat pattern. The per-line mean of about $103 is among the smaller means in this harvest band, so the contribution count is the number that explains how $5.0M accumulated. Those means are arithmetic, not medians.

The packet has no gift-size distribution, no school-versus-clinic flag, and no party split. COUNSELOR does not tell a reader whether the donor meant counseling, camp counseling, or legal counsel.

Counselor is not attorney and not therapist

THERAPIST, ATTORNEY, SCHOOL COUNSELOR, and GUIDANCE COUNSELOR — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to COUNSELOR. This page cites only $5,001,105, 48,327 contributions, and 1,013 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no counseling-license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals COUNSELOR after indexing.

What 1,013 donor records cannot disambiguate

1,013 donor records used COUNSELOR on at least one matching itemization. That is not a licensing-board roster. Retired counselors, people who abbreviated a longer title to COUNSELOR, and forms filled with a spouse’s job can appear. Address variants can split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed COUNSELOR on some gifts and THERAPIST on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 48-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 1,013 unique people each gave 48 times.

Keep employer industry tables separate

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A school counselor and a clinic counselor share this occupation string if they typed COUNSELOR. Adding $5,001,105 to an education or health industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the COUNSELOR 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 $5,001,105.

How to cite COUNSELOR

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: COUNSELOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,001,105 on 48,327 contributions from 1,013 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money and that COUNSELOR is one-word free text. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules published on FEC.gov. The facts do not encode party or counseling setting. Recipient committees are a different join. Compact millions ($5.0M) are the same headline amount as $5,001,105, rounded to one decimal place.

COUNSELOR as high-repeat ambiguous text

COUNSELOR in this extract is $5,001,105 on 48,327 itemizations from 1,013 donor records, or $5.0M 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.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $103 per contribution and about $4,937 per donor record, with roughly 48 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. THERAPIST and SCHOOL COUNSELOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to COUNSELOR. 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 $5,001,105. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals COUNSELOR, dollars equal $5,001,105, contributions equal 48,327, donors equal 1,013. 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. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see how 48,327 lines produced $5.0M. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have counselor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list COUNSELOR sum to $5,001,105, or $5.0M, across 48,327 contributions and 1,013 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 COUNSELOR mean a therapist or a lawyer?

The FEC record does not say. COUNSELOR is one-word free text. Treat the 1,013 donor records as a count of matching text, not a license roster. The indexed sum remains $5,001,105. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this total.

Why are there so many counselor contributions?

48,327 itemizations from 1,013 donors implies about 48 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $103. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Where do I review individual counselor gifts?

The COUNSELOR occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,001,105. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.