What government-relations occupation donors give in federal races

Field phrase with a $480 mean gift

$10,141,599, 21,145 itemizations, and 1,398 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $480. Mean dollars per donor record are about $7,254. Repeat giving is about 15 itemizations per donor record.

21,145 lines from 1,398 records is a mid-volume advocacy-field stack. The $480 per-line mean sits near other professional field labels, not with high-repeat status keys that post many small gifts.

The packet has no LDA-registration field, no employer, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average.

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is not LOBBYIST

The FEC record does not verify that the donor is a registered lobbyist. In-house government-affairs staff, consultants, and association employees can all type the field phrase. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $10,141,599, 21,145 contributions, and 1,398 donors. LOBBYIST and PUBLIC RELATIONS remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping advocacy titles

1,398 donor records used GOVERNMENT RELATIONS on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed GOVERNMENT RELATIONS on some gifts and LOBBYIST on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the field phrase.

Industry pages group employers

Industry pages group employers. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS as occupation is the donor’s job-field text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $10,141,599 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the GOVERNMENT RELATIONS occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to LOBBYIST and other advocacy titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, dollars equal $10,141,599, contributions equal 21,145, donors equal 1,398, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the mid-range mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $10,141,599, 21,145 contributions, and 1,398 donors. The LOBBYIST key stays on its own page unless the extract merged it into GOVERNMENT RELATIONS.

Reading GOVERNMENT RELATIONS next to LOBBYIST

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS in this extract is $10,141,599 on 21,145 itemizations from 1,398 donor records, or $10.1 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. People who type lobbyist, public affairs, or consultant may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact GOVERNMENT RELATIONS key is in $10,141,599.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $480 per contribution and about $7,254 per donor record, with roughly 15 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining GOVERNMENT RELATIONS with LOBBYIST without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,398 donor records on 21,145 lines is a mid-volume field-label pool, not an LDA registration census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $10,141,599. A person who listed GOVERNMENT RELATIONS on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, dollars equal $10,141,599, contributions equal 21,145, donors equal 1,398. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live GOVERNMENT RELATIONS occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($10.1 million) are the same headline amount as $10,141,599, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 21,145 contributions and 1,398 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the mid-volume field phrase separately from LOBBYIST. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not an LDA registration. A citation that stays inside the packet names GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, $10,141,599, 21,145, and 1,398 together.

Questions

How much have government-relations occupation donors given in FEC data?

The GOVERNMENT RELATIONS occupation string is attached to $10,141,599 across 21,145 contributions and 1,398 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of registered lobbyists. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does GOVERNMENT RELATIONS include lobbyist filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized LOBBYIST to this phrase. Otherwise LOBBYIST is a separate key. This page covers GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: $10,141,599, 21,145 contributions, and 1,398 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average government-relations contribution?

Dividing $10,141,599 by 21,145 itemizations yields about $480 per contribution. Dividing by 1,398 donors yields about $7,254 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 15 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing government relations prove LDA registration?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify lobbyist registration. Quote 21,145 contributions and 1,398 donor records with the $10,141,599 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.