What neurosurgeon donors give in federal races

Specialty receipts under $6.0 million

$6,036,706 is the occupation-level dollar total. 7,309 is the itemization count. 1,153 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $826 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,236 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 6 itemizations per donor record. Seven thousand-plus lines from 1,153 donor records is a lower line count than some other physician specialties with similar dollars—more concentrated per person than high-volume medical keys.

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 $826 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 above high-frequency medical strings that post tens of thousands of small itemizations. The packet still has no median and no hospital-versus-private-practice split.

Form 3, Form 3X, and unlicensed specialty text

Medical occupation strings often look precise and still fail a license check. The FEC does not verify board certification in neurosurgery. A retired neurosurgeon who still types the specialty can appear in the 1,153.

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 NEUROSURGEON after indexing. SURGEON, PHYSICIAN, and NEUROLOGIST remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to NEUROSURGEON.

What 1,153 donor records can and cannot show

1,153 donor records used NEUROSURGEON on at least one matching itemization. That is not a membership list from a neurosurgical society. The FEC record does not flag fellows, retirees, or forms filled with a spouse’s title.

A person who listed NEUROSURGEON 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 health-sector industry tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. A neurosurgeon in private practice and one employed by an academic medical center share this occupation string if they typed NEUROSURGEON. Adding $6,036,706 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the NEUROSURGEON 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 $6,036,706.

How to cite the neurosurgeon key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: NEUROSURGEON itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,036,706 on 7,309 contributions from 1,153 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. Do not treat the total as a census of practicing neurosurgeons.

Treating NEUROSURGEON as typed specialty text

NEUROSURGEON in this extract is $6,036,706 on 7,309 itemizations from 1,153 donor records, or $6.0 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. A medical board can list who may practice neurosurgery. FEC itemizations list whoever typed NEUROSURGEON. 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 $826 per contribution and about $5,236 per donor record, with roughly 6 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. SURGEON, PHYSICIAN, and NEUROLOGIST remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to NEUROSURGEON. 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 $6,036,706. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals NEUROSURGEON, dollars equal $6,036,706, contributions equal 7,309, donors equal 1,153. 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 ($6.0 million) are the same headline amount as $6,036,706, 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 NEUROSURGEON in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have neurosurgeon donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list NEUROSURGEON sum to $6,036,706 across 7,309 contributions and 1,153 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 generic surgeons included in the neurosurgeon total?

No. SURGEON is a separate occupation string. This page covers NEUROSURGEON only: $6,036,706, 7,309 contributions, and 1,153 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined surgical 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.

Does the FEC confirm neurosurgery board certification?

No. Occupation is self-reported. A specialty word on Schedule A is not a credential check. Treat the 1,153 donor records as a count of matching text, not a board roster. The indexed sum remains $6,036,706. 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.

Where do I review individual gifts?

The NEUROSURGEON occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $6,036,706. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.