What MANAGEMENT donors give in federal races

A vague label with ordinary means

$30,941,568, 72,376 itemizations, and 4,481 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $428. Mean dollars per donor record is about $6,905. Repeat giving is about 16 itemizations per donor record.

The word can mean a function, a department, or a self-description of being “in management.” The FEC occupation column does not split those senses. This overlay does not invent that split.

These means are arithmetic. The packet has no median.

Management is not manager

MANAGER, GENERAL MANAGER, and EXECUTIVE are neighboring keys. Donors who write the collective noun land here. Combining MANAGEMENT and MANAGER without showing both source totals mixes buckets the bulk file kept apart.

This page cites only $30,941,568, 72,376 contributions, and 4,481 donors. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary of ranks.

Donor-record limits

4,481 donor records used MANAGEMENT on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed MANAGEMENT on some gifts and MANAGER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the department word.

Do not treat this as an industry total

Industry pages group employers. People in management in different sectors share this occupation string if they typed MANAGEMENT. Adding $30,941,568 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the MANAGEMENT occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see MANAGER and GENERAL MANAGER as separate keys.

Citation

Quote occupation equals MANAGEMENT, dollars equal $30,941,568, contributions equal 72,376, donors equal 4,481, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. If a brief needs “managers as a group,” list MANAGEMENT, MANAGER, and GENERAL MANAGER as separate lines.

Department language instead of a personal rank

MANAGEMENT in this extract is $30,941,568 on 72,376 itemizations from 4,481 donor records, or $30.9 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. People who write “management” on a form may mean they work in a management department, own a management company, or simply avoid a more specific title. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $428 per contribution and about $6,905 per donor record, with roughly 16 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as MANAGER, GENERAL MANAGER, and EXECUTIVE remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to MANAGEMENT. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 4,481 donor records on 72,376 lines is too thin to be every manager in the file and too thick to be a handful of holding-company principals.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $30,941,568. A person who listed MANAGEMENT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines, because occupation is stored per transaction. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals MANAGEMENT, dollars equal $30,941,568, contributions equal 72,376, donors equal 4,481. 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 ($30.9 million) are the same headline amount as $30,941,568, 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 whether MANAGEMENT is a high-volume stack, a concentrated pool, or a high-repeat status label. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have MANAGEMENT donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list MANAGEMENT sum to $30,941,568 across 72,376 contributions and 4,481 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a census of managers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is MANAGER included in the MANAGEMENT total?

No. MANAGER and GENERAL MANAGER are separate occupation strings. This page covers MANAGEMENT only: $30,941,568, 72,376 contributions, and 4,481 donors. Name each key if you add them. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average MANAGEMENT contribution?

Dividing $30,941,568 by 72,376 itemizations yields about $428 per contribution. Dividing by 4,481 donors yields about $6,905 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does MANAGEMENT encode industry or party?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. Industry pages are a different cut, and the occupation column does not encode party. Quote 72,376 contributions and 4,481 donor records with the $30,941,568 headline. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.