What executive assistant donors give in federal races

Twenty-nine thousand lines under a $5.5M cap

$5,504,631 is the occupation-level dollar total. 29,742 is the itemization count. 1,374 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $185 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,006 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 22 itemizations per donor record.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. A few large Schedule A lines can lift $185 while most receipts stay smaller, or the reverse. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no election-cycle series. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Compared with C-suite strings in the same harvest band, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT is a high-frequency support title: more lines than many officer keys, with a modest mean check. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions; this bucket is heavier on itemization count than on dollars per line.

Executive assistant is not administrative assistant

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT is a neighboring occupation string with its own facts. This page covers EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT only: $5,504,631, 29,742 contributions, and 1,374 donors. Mixing the two titles would invent a combined assistant total the packet does not contain.

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 HR-grade check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT after indexing. EA, EXEC ASST, and PERSONAL ASSISTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them here.

What 1,374 donor records can and cannot show

1,374 donor records used EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT on at least one matching itemization. That is not a roster of people currently employed as executive assistants. Retired staff, contractors who typed the title, and forms filled with a spouse’s job can appear. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT on some gifts and ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. The 22-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 1,374 unique people each gave 22 times.

Keep employer industry tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An executive assistant at a law firm and one at a technology company share this occupation string if they typed EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT. Adding $5,504,631 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 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 $5,504,631.

How to cite the executive assistant key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,504,631 on 29,742 contributions from 1,374 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 published on FEC.gov. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not treat the total as a census of working executive assistants. Compact millions ($5.5M) are the same headline amount as $5,504,631, rounded to one decimal place.

Treating EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT as typed support text

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT in this extract is $5,504,631 on 29,742 itemizations from 1,374 donor records, or $5.5M 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 $185 per contribution and about $4,006 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. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, EA, and PERSONAL ASSISTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT. 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 $5,504,631. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, dollars equal $5,504,631, contributions equal 29,742, donors equal 1,374. 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 the shape of EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have executive assistant donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT sum to $5,504,631, or $5.5M, across 29,742 contributions and 1,374 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.

Are administrative assistants included in this total?

No. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT is a separate occupation string. This page covers EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT only: $5,504,631, 29,742 contributions, and 1,374 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined assistant total the packet does not contain. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Does the FEC confirm that a donor is an executive assistant?

No. Occupation is self-reported. A job title on Schedule A is not an employment verification. Treat the 1,374 donor records as a count of matching text, not an HR roster. The indexed sum remains $5,504,631. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Where do I review individual executive assistant gifts?

The EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,504,631. 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.