NOT-EMPLOYED (hyphenated) on FEC schedules: $14.7 million

Hyphen versus space is a real split

Committees and form software do not normalize punctuation. NOT-EMPLOYED and NOT EMPLOYED are two keys. LobbyVault’s overlay on the main not-employed hub belongs to the larger space-separated row. This guide covers only the hyphenated leftover: $14,697,180, 142,117 lines, and 3,653 donors. Combining the two without documenting the join would mix strings the FEC stored separately.

UNEMPLOYED without “NOT” is a third status word. RETIRED and HOMEMAKER are additional self-descriptions. None of those totals is folded into this hyphenated $14,697,180.

3,653 donors and 142,117 lines

3,653 unique donors produced 142,117 NOT-EMPLOYED contribution lines totaling $14,697,180. That is on the order of 39 itemized receipts per donor — high paperwork volume relative to the unique-person count, consistent with recurring itemized gifts. The packet does not publish a mean ticket as its own FEC field.

The space-separated NOT EMPLOYED row has orders of magnitude more dollars and lines. This hyphenated cluster is a spelling remnant, not a second labor market. Party share is not on the industry headline.

What this guide is not overlaying

The hub at the not-employed donor table already has overlay copy from the larger NOT EMPLOYED packet. This file is guide-only so two articles do not compete for the same overlayTarget. Use that hub for the dominant spelling; use this guide to see how punctuation splits a status phrase.

Placeholders such as REQUESTED mean missing employer data. They are not this hyphenated status. A donor who wrote NOT-EMPLOYED on one receipt and NOT EMPLOYED on another appears in each key only for matching receipts.

Donor table and occupation field

The NOT-EMPLOYED donor table lists disclosed contributors attached to the hyphenated string. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer BLS labor-force status from the hyphen. Students, caregivers, and retirees who chose this spelling can all generate it.

Occupation pages may show a second field beside the hyphenated employer text. Those occupation words remain separate industry keys when they were placed in the employer box.

Because this hyphenated NOT-EMPLOYED guide is not the hub overlay, readers should open the space-separated NOT EMPLOYED donor table for the dominant spelling and keep $14,697,180, 142,117 lines, and 3,653 donors here as the punctuation leftover. UNEMPLOYED without NOT is a third status word. Unitemized gifts stay out of both spellings. Occupation pages may show a second field beside the hyphen. Placeholders such as REQUESTED are missing data. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not BLS and not NAICS. Overlay copy stays on the larger-dollar space-separated packet.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $14,697,180, 142,117 contributions, 3,653 donors, top employer NOT-EMPLOYED. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare the space-separated NOT EMPLOYED row and UNEMPLOYED on the industry index. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Hyphen leftover: $14,697,180 beside the space-separated giant

The hyphenated NOT-EMPLOYED string totals $14,697,180 from 3,653 donors and 142,117 lines. The space-separated NOT EMPLOYED row is a different key with overlay copy on the hub and a far larger dollar pile. This file is guide-only so two articles do not share overlayTarget. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and BLS unemployment series are outside both totals. UNEMPLOYED without NOT is a third status word.

The 142,117 lines imply on the order of 39 itemized receipts per unique donor — high paperwork volume for a punctuation remnant. Recurring itemized programs can produce that ratio. A donor who wrote NOT-EMPLOYED on one receipt and NOT EMPLOYED on another appears in each key only for matching receipts. LobbyVault does not merge punctuation variants.

The donor table lists disclosed contributors attached to the hyphenated string. LobbyVault does not infer BLS labor-force status from the hyphen. Occupation pages may show a second field. Placeholders such as REQUESTED are missing data, not this status. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $14,697,180, 142,117 contributions, 3,653 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS. Use the hub for the dominant spelling; use this guide for the hyphen split.

Questions

How much have NOT-EMPLOYED (hyphenated) donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $14,697,180 to the hyphenated NOT-EMPLOYED string, from 142,117 contributions and 3,653 donors. These are itemized individual receipts with that punctuation, not the space-separated NOT EMPLOYED row and not a BLS unemployment series. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is NOT-EMPLOYED the same as NOT EMPLOYED?

No. The space-separated spelling is a separate, much larger grouped string with its own overlay page. This hyphenated key totals $14,697,180 only. LobbyVault does not merge punctuation variants. The main hub overlay stays on the larger-dollar spelling. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Why does this guide omit an overlay target?

Two packets would otherwise share the not-employed hub. Overlay copy is reserved for the larger NOT EMPLOYED dollar total. This hyphenated file is a standalone guide that still links to the donor table and the industry index. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Why are there 142,117 contributions from 3,653 donors?

Each itemized gift is a line. Repeat donations from the same 3,653 people produce the 142,117 receipt count. Recurring itemized programs raise that ratio. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-person labor-force census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.