What instructor donors give in federal races

High-frequency receipts on a one-word teaching label

$5,514,850 is the occupation-level dollar total. 46,555 is the itemization count. 1,277 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $118 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,319 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 36 itemizations per donor record. Forty-six thousand-plus lines from 1,277 donor records is a high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a modest mean dollars per line.

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 $118 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per contribution sit toward the low side among occupation strings near this dollar band. This bucket is heavier on line count than on dollars per line.

Instructor is not professor and not teacher

The FEC does not verify teaching credentials. Flight instructors, fitness instructors, and college instructors can share this string if that is the occupation text. Ranked academic titles live on other pages.

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 INSTRUCTOR after indexing. TEACHER, PROFESSOR, and ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to INSTRUCTOR.

What 1,277 donor records can and cannot show

1,277 donor records used INSTRUCTOR on at least one matching itemization. 1,277 donor records used INSTRUCTOR on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of teachers. The one-word label is a coarse bucket.

A person who listed INSTRUCTOR 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.

Keep education industry tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An instructor at a university and one at a flight school share this occupation string if they typed INSTRUCTOR. Industry pages group education employers separately. Adding $5,514,850 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the INSTRUCTOR 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 $5,514,850.

How to cite the instructor key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: INSTRUCTOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,514,850 on 46,555 contributions from 1,277 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 one-word label is not a teaching-license roster and not a combined education-sector total.

Treating INSTRUCTOR as unprefixed teaching text

INSTRUCTOR in this extract is $5,514,850 on 46,555 itemizations from 1,277 donor records, or $5.5 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. Instructor without a setting prefix is a coarse FEC occupation bucket, not a faculty census. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $118 per contribution and about $4,319 per donor record, with roughly 36 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. TEACHER, PROFESSOR, and ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to INSTRUCTOR. 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 $5,514,850. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals INSTRUCTOR, dollars equal $5,514,850, contributions equal 46,555, donors equal 1,277. 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 ($5.5 million) are the same headline amount as $5,514,850, 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 INSTRUCTOR in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have instructor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list INSTRUCTOR sum to $5,514,850 across 46,555 contributions and 1,277 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 professors included in the instructor total?

No. PROFESSOR is a different occupation key. This page covers INSTRUCTOR only: $5,514,850, 46,555 contributions, and 1,277 donors. Combining them would invent a combined academic total the packet does not contain. 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 are there 46,555 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,277 donor records add rows. About 36 lines per record and about $118 per contribution are means on $5,514,850. 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.

Does the FEC verify teaching credentials?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. Treat the 1,277 donor records as matching text, not a licensing roster. The indexed sum remains $5,514,850. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.