What not-employed occupation donors give in federal races

High line count, a $74 mean gift

$9,120,241, 122,823 itemizations, and 2,084 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $74. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,376. Repeat giving is about 59 itemizations per donor record.

122,823 lines from 2,084 records is a high-repeat status stack: many schedules, a low per-line mean. Headline dollars near $9.1 million arrive through volume rather than large average gifts.

The packet has no unemployment-duration field, no party split, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain small.

NOT-EMPLOYED is not UNEMPLOYED

The FEC record does not verify labor-force status. Form software, ActBlue-style occupation pickers, and donors who typed a hyphenated phrase can all produce this key. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $9,120,241, 122,823 contributions, and 2,084 donors. UNEMPLOYED, RETIRED, and NOT EMPLOYED without a hyphen remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping status strings

2,084 donor records used NOT-EMPLOYED on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed NOT-EMPLOYED on some gifts and UNEMPLOYED on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

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

Industry pages do not replace this status key

Industry pages group employers. NOT-EMPLOYED as occupation is status text, not an employer-industry code. Adding $9,120,241 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the NOT-EMPLOYED occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the hyphenated string next to UNEMPLOYED and other status labels.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals NOT-EMPLOYED, dollars equal $9,120,241, contributions equal 122,823, donors equal 2,084, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the contribution count with the dollars so the $74 mean is visible next to the headline total.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $9,120,241, 122,823 contributions, and 2,084 donors. UNEMPLOYED stays on its own page unless the extract merged it into NOT-EMPLOYED.

Reading NOT-EMPLOYED next to UNEMPLOYED

NOT-EMPLOYED in this extract is $9,120,241 on 122,823 itemizations from 2,084 donor records, or $9.1 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. People who type unemployed, retired, or not employed without a hyphen may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact NOT-EMPLOYED key is in $9,120,241.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $74 per contribution and about $4,376 per donor record, with roughly 59 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining NOT-EMPLOYED with UNEMPLOYED without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 2,084 donor records on 122,823 lines is a high-volume status pool, not a labor-force census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $9,120,241. A person who listed NOT-EMPLOYED on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals NOT-EMPLOYED, dollars equal $9,120,241, contributions equal 122,823, donors equal 2,084. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live NOT-EMPLOYED occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($9.1 million) are the same headline amount as $9,120,241, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 122,823 contributions and 2,084 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see that headline dollars arrive through volume, not a large per-gift mean. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The hyphenated status string is donor-supplied free text, not a labor-force code, and is stored separately from UNEMPLOYED. A citation that stays inside the packet names NOT-EMPLOYED, $9,120,241, 122,823, and 2,084 together.

Questions

How much have not-employed occupation donors given in FEC data?

The NOT-EMPLOYED occupation string is attached to $9,120,241 across 122,823 contributions and 2,084 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of people out of work. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does NOT-EMPLOYED include UNEMPLOYED filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized UNEMPLOYED to this hyphenated string. Otherwise UNEMPLOYED is a separate key. This page covers NOT-EMPLOYED: $9,120,241, 122,823 contributions, and 2,084 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average not-employed contribution?

Dividing $9,120,241 by 122,823 itemizations yields about $74 per contribution. Dividing by 2,084 donors yields about $4,376 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 59 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing not-employed prove the donor had no job?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify labor-force status. Quote 122,823 contributions and 2,084 donor records with the $9,120,241 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.