EXECUTIVE occupation money in federal filings

Fewer donors, larger mean amounts

41,411 donors is a smaller pool than several professional labels that sit nearby in dollar rank. Against $366,730,911, the mean per donor record is about $8,856. Against 499,782 itemizations, the mean per contribution is about $734. Those averages sit above high-volume occupations that post more gifts at lower amounts.

About 12 contributions per donor record is the file-wide repeat rate. That is enough to show many people are not one-time itemizers, and not enough to describe a typical executive’s giving calendar. The FEC extract does not publish a mode or median for this string.

EXECUTIVE overlaps in English with CEO, PRESIDENT, and DIRECTOR. In the database those are different keys. A donor who wrote EXECUTIVE is in this $366,730,911. A donor who wrote CEO is not, unless a separate gift used this exact occupation text.

Free text, not an org-chart rank

Companies use executive for a wide band of roles. The FEC occupation box does not encode salary band, equity, or whether the person sits on a board. Best-efforts collection means the committee asked; it does not mean a human resources file was checked.

Punctuation and extra words matter. Some filers write C-suite, senior executive, or executive vice president. Those strings, if they did not normalize to EXECUTIVE, live elsewhere. This page is the EXECUTIVE match only.

Itemizations as the unit of disclosure

499,782 is the count of itemized transactions, not the count of unique checks in a colloquial sense. Redesignations, memo entries, and paired receipts can add lines. The occupation total sums amounts on matching lines in the loaded bulk data.

Unitemized contributions never carry an occupation code in this table. Any EXECUTIVE-labeled giving below the itemization threshold is invisible here. $366,730,911 is therefore a floor on labeled itemized activity, not a complete household giving census. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $366.7 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

How this page relates to industry views

Industry pages group employer categories. An executive at a bank and an executive at a manufacturer can share this occupation string and split across industries. Do not add occupation and industry totals; they double-count overlapping rows.

Start from the EXECUTIVE occupation page for the itemized list, then use the occupations index to compare neighboring titles on their own facts. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $366.7 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

What this overlay will not claim

These facts do not assign motive, party, or policy preference. They do not estimate how many U.S. executives give in federal races. They report $366,730,911, 499,782 contributions, and 41,411 donors on the EXECUTIVE occupation key in FEC itemizations indexed by LobbyVault.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep EXECUTIVE on its own line with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring strings. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut and should not be added to this occupation total. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $366.7 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $366.7 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Why EXECUTIVE should not be treated as a C-suite census

EXECUTIVE is $366.7 million on 499,782 itemizations from 41,411 donor records. English speakers hear a seniority band. The FEC box hears six letters. A regional sales executive and a publicly traded-company executive can share the string. CEO, C.E.O., PRESIDENT, and DIRECTOR remain outside this total. The mean of about $734 per itemization and about $8,856 per donor record is this bucket’s arithmetic, not a salary proxy.

For a methods paragraph: occupation is self-reported on Form 3/3X itemizations indexed from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never enter the $366,730,911 figure. Cycle filters on the live hub can shrink the three facts; this packet is the occupation totals as harvested. Cite all three numbers when the question is “how large is EXECUTIVE in the file,” and refuse to convert that into a headcount of U.S. executives.

Questions

What is the FEC total for occupation EXECUTIVE?

Itemizations listing EXECUTIVE sum to $366,730,911 in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total covers 499,782 contributions and 41,411 donor records that used that occupation text. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Is EXECUTIVE the same as CEO in campaign-finance data?

No. Occupation is self-reported. EXECUTIVE, CEO, and C.E.O. are separate strings with separate totals. This page does not include gifts whose occupation field was CEO unless the text matched EXECUTIVE. The matching contribution count is 499,782 and the matching donor-record count is 41,411. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

Why is the average gift higher than for some professions?

With $366,730,911 on 499,782 itemizations, the mean is about $734 per contribution, and about $8,856 per donor record. Those are arithmetic means from this occupation bucket only. They are not a statement that executives always give larger checks.

Does the total include unitemized executive giving?

No. Occupation appears on itemized Form 3/3X schedules. Amounts that were never itemized are not in the $366,730,911 figure. The packet facts are itemized occupation totals only. The matching contribution count is 499,782 and the matching donor-record count is 41,411. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.