What LOBBYIST donors give in federal races

Mid-size influence-title pool

$15,512,853 is the occupation-level dollar total. 29,384 is the itemization count. 2,173 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $528. Mean dollars per donor record are about $7,139. Repeat giving is about 14 itemizations per donor record.

2,173 donor records is a mid-width pool. The per-line mean of about $528 sits between high-volume workplace titles and concentrated investor keys in this harvest band.

These means are not typical-check estimates and not a measure of lobbying-contract revenue allocated to politics. The packet has no LDA registration field and no gift-size distribution.

LOBBYIST is not government affairs and not LDA

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, and CONSULTANT are neighboring occupation keys if they exist as separate hubs. This page cites only LOBBYIST: $15,512,853, 29,384 contributions, and 2,173 donors. Those other strings stay outside the total unless the bulk extract normalized them here.

The FEC occupation field is not the Lobbying Disclosure Act registrant list. People who lobby as a side role, in-house government-affairs staff who typed LOBBYIST, and people using the word loosely can all appear. Occupation is per transaction.

What the dollars do not measure

$15,512,853 is not lobbying expenditures reported under the LDA and not a K Street firm PAC total. Industry pages group employers. A lobbyist at a trade association and a lobbyist at a law firm share this occupation string if they typed LOBBYIST.

Party is not stored in the occupation column. Open the LOBBYIST occupation page for recipient rows rather than reading bloc preference from the job word. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $15.5 million.

Occupation versus industry for advocacy work

A donor who listed LOBBYIST on some gifts and CONSULTANT on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Adding those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Use the occupations index to see neighboring advocacy titles as separate keys. Use industry pages for employer-side cuts. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Limits and source

Occupation is free text. Extra words (registered lobbyist, retired lobbyist) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to LOBBYIST. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

2,173 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

Job word without a registrant match

LOBBYIST in this extract is $15,512,853 on 29,384 itemizations from 2,173 donor records. About 14 itemizations per donor record is a moderate repeat rate. Mean line size is about $528; mean dollars per donor record are about $7,139. LDA filings are a different disclosure system and are not these three facts.

Industry pages will not equal $15,512,853. Registration status is not verified. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals LOBBYIST, dollars equal $15,512,853, contributions equal 29,384, donors equal 2,173. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Compact millions ($15.5 million) are the same headline amount as $15,512,853, rounded to one decimal place. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only.

2,173 donor records is a mid-width pool. Registered lobbyist and retired lobbyist create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to LOBBYIST. GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS and CONSULTANT stay outside this total unless they normalized here. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $15,512,853.

Keep LOBBYIST on its own line as FEC occupation text, not as an LDA registrant census. 2,173 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Quote occupation equals LOBBYIST, then $15,512,853, 29,384 contributions, and 2,173 donors. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring advocacy titles. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. This total is not lobbying spend reported under the LDA.

LDA registrant lists are a different disclosure system. This page is FEC occupation text LOBBYIST: $15,512,853, 29,384 contributions, and 2,173 donors. Mean line size of about $528 is an arithmetic mean. CONSULTANT stays outside unless it normalized here. Do not treat this total as lobbying spend. Quote the three facts.

Questions

How much have LOBBYIST donors given in FEC records?

Occupation LOBBYIST is attached to $15,512,853 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 29,384 contributions and 2,173 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not LDA lobbying spend. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is this the same as lobbying disclosure totals?

No. LDA reports are a different filing system. This page is FEC occupation text LOBBYIST: $15,512,853, 29,384 contributions, and 2,173 donors. 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.

What is the average LOBBYIST contribution?

Dividing $15,512,853 by 29,384 itemizations yields about $528 per contribution. Dividing by 2,173 donors yields about $7,139 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing LOBBYIST prove LDA registration?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify LDA status. Quote 29,384 contributions and 2,173 donor records with the $15,512,853 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.