What exec donors give in federal races

A short label with a large indexed sum

$6,792,051 is the occupation-level dollar total. 13,645 is the itemization count. 676 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $498 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $10,047 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 20 itemizations per donor record. Six hundred seventy-six donor records against $6.8 million is a concentrated pool compared with occupations that post similar dollars across two thousand people.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $498 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Truncation is common when a form field, import script, or vendor software clips EXECUTIVE or EXEC. VICE PRESIDENT. Some donors may have typed EXEC on purpose. The bulk file does not say which.

Self-reporting and messy executive titles

Executive occupations splinter across dozens of strings: CEO, PRESIDENT, EVP, CHAIRMAN, OWNER, EXEC. Each has its own occupation page when the index finds enough rows. Merging EXEC with EXECUTIVE or CEO would mix keys the FEC published separately.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals EXEC after indexing. EXECUTIVE, CEO, and C.E.O. remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to EXEC.

What 676 donor records can and cannot show

676 donor records used EXEC on at least one matching itemization. It is not a count of all U.S. executives who donate. Many executives file a fuller title and never appear here. The 676 figure is matching occupation text.

A person who listed EXEC on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

What the EXEC number is not

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An EXEC at a manufacturer and one at a fund share this occupation string if they typed EXEC. Adding $6,792,051 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the EXEC 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 $6,792,051.

How to cite the EXEC key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: EXEC itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,792,051 on 13,645 contributions from 676 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. The four letters are a clipped disclosure field, not a merged C-suite total.

Reading four letters in the FEC occupation column

EXEC in this extract is $6,792,051 on 13,645 itemizations from 676 donor records, or $6.8 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. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a cleaned executive roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $498 per contribution and about $10,047 per donor record, with roughly 20 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. EXECUTIVE, CEO, and C.E.O. remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to EXEC. 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 $6,792,051. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals EXEC, dollars equal $6,792,051, contributions equal 13,645, donors equal 676. 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 ($6.8 million) are the same headline amount as $6,792,051, 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 the shape of EXEC in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much federal money is tagged EXEC as occupation?

Itemizations that list EXEC sum to $6,792,051 across 13,645 contributions and 676 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 EXEC mean the same as executive or CEO?

Not in the index. Occupation keys are exact strings. EXEC, EXECUTIVE, and CEO are separate pages. This key is $6,792,051 from 13,645 contributions and 676 donors. Combining them would invent a total the packet does not provide. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Why is the donor count only 676?

That is the distinct-donor tally inside this exact label. Mean dollars per donor record are about $10,047. The 676 figure is not a count of all executives who donate. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I verify the filings?

Start on the EXEC occupation page, then open the committee report on FEC.gov. Occupation remains self-reported on Form 3/3X. The indexed sum is $6,792,051 on 13,645 lines. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.