LAWYER occupation giving, apart from ATTORNEY

A second legal-title bucket

$105,321,940 is smaller than the ATTORNEY string’s total in this harvest, with a thinner donor pool: 19,031 records versus ATTORNEY’s much larger set. Across 362,611 itemizations the mean is about $290 per contribution. Across donors the mean is about $5,534 per record. About 19 contributions per donor is the repeat rate.

People choose one word or the other, or they switch across gifts. A combined “legal occupation” figure would require adding separate keys and saying so. This overlay cites only the LAWYER facts: $105,321,940, 362,611 contributions, and 19,031 donors.

Counsel, litigator, and attorney-at-law are other strings if that is what appeared after normalization. They are not in this sum.

Self-reporting, not a bar list

The FEC does not match occupation to state bars. Retired lawyers, in-house lawyers, and people who no longer practice may still type LAWYER. Practicing lawyers who wrote PARTNER or ATTORNEY land on those pages instead.

Best-efforts rules require committees to request occupation. They do not require a bar number on the receipt. Treat 19,031 as a contributor-record count, not a licensed-lawyer census.

Itemizations as transaction volume

362,611 lines mean the LAWYER total is built from hundreds of thousands of itemized transactions, not a handful of headline checks. Mean line size near $290 is consistent with many modest itemizations plus a thinner large-gift tail. The packet has no distribution.

Unitemized receipts never carry this occupation code. $105,321,940 is itemized LAWYER activity in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $105.3 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 to use both legal-title hubs

Open the LAWYER occupation page for this string’s rows. Open ATTORNEY for the other common legal title. Use the occupations index to see both as separate rows. Do not add them in a headline unless you label the sum as a research combination of two keys.

Industry pages that touch legal services use employer categories and will not equal either occupation total. Party is not in the occupation column. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $105.3 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Source

FEC Form 3/3X itemizations, occupation self-reported, indexed on LobbyVault. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live hub filters may change displayed sums.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep LAWYER 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 $105.3 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $105.3 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

LAWYER as the smaller of two common legal strings

LAWYER is $105.3 million on 362,611 itemizations from 19,031 donor records. ATTORNEY is the larger sibling and is excluded here. Mean line size is about $290, with about 19 itemizations per donor record. People choose one synonym or the other, or they switch across gifts. A combined legal total must list both keys and must not be labeled as a single FEC field.

Bar membership is not checked. PARTNER and COUNSEL remain outside this sum unless the occupation text normalized to LAWYER. 19,031 is a contributor-record count, not a licensed-lawyer census. Industry pages for legal services will not equal $105,321,940. Cite the three LAWYER facts as an exact-string filter on Form 3/3X itemizations. LAWYER is the smaller synonym next to ATTORNEY. Nineteen thousand thirty-one donor records and 362,611 itemizations produced $105.3 million. ATTORNEY is the giant neighboring key. PARTNER catches some firm equity holders who never typed lawyer. A legal-occupation briefing that uses only LAWYER understates the file. A briefing that silently adds ATTORNEY overstates this page. List both.

Questions

How much have LAWYER donors given in FEC records?

Occupation LAWYER is attached to $105,321,940 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 362,611 contributions and 19,031 donor records. ATTORNEY is a separate string and is not included. 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.

Why are LAWYER and ATTORNEY split?

Occupation is free text. Donors type different words. The bulk file stores them as different keys. This page’s $105,321,940 is the LAWYER match only. The matching contribution count is 362,611 and the matching donor-record count is 19,031. 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.

How many lawyer donors are in this bucket?

19,031 donor records used LAWYER on matching itemizations. That is a contributor-record count, not a bar-association roster and not a de-duplicated person list. The matching contribution count is 362,611 and the matching donor-record count is 19,031. 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.

What is the average LAWYER contribution?

$105,321,940 divided by 362,611 itemizations is about $290 per contribution. Divided by 19,031 donors, the mean is about $5,534 per donor record. 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.