What PRESIDENT/C.E.O. donors give in federal races

A small pool with a large mean line

Among occupation strings near this dollar band, PRESIDENT/C.E.O. is unusually concentrated: $43,919,850 on 2,920 itemizations from 591 donors. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $15,041 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $74,314 per donor record. Those means sit far above high-volume professional labels that post similar headline dollars on tens of thousands of lines.

The repeat rate is about 5 contributions per donor record, lower than many mid-frequency titles. The shape is fewer, larger itemizations rather than a thick stack of small gifts. The packet still has no median and no party split.

591 donor records is a thin census even by FEC occupation standards. Treat it as a count of contributor records that used this exact punctuation, not as a count of sitting presidents and chief executives.

Punctuation and ampersands split the title

PRESIDENT & CEO, PRESIDENT/CEO, CEO, and C.E.O. are neighboring keys. A donor who types a slash and periods lands here; a donor who types an ampersand lands elsewhere. Combining those strings without showing each source total would mix keys the bulk file kept apart. This page cites only $43,919,850, 2,920 contributions, and 591 donors.

FEC best-efforts rules do not force a controlled executive-title vocabulary. Software defaults, assistant-entered forms, and personal habit all produce parallel buckets. LobbyVault indexes the text that arrived.

What the donor count is not

591 is not the number of people who hold both president and CEO titles in the U.S. economy. Address variants can split one person into multiple records. A person who used PRESIDENT/C.E.O. on some gifts and CEO on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. It is not a lifetime identity field and not a corporate-registry match.

Do not add industry dollars to this title

Industry pages group employer-side categories. An executive in finance and an executive in manufacturing share this occupation string if they typed PRESIDENT/C.E.O. Adding this $43,919,850 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations.

Open the PRESIDENT/C.E.O. occupation page for the row list. Use the occupations index to place this punctuation variant next to other executive spellings.

How to cite the slash-and-periods key

A usable citation names the exact string: PRESIDENT/C.E.O. itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $43,919,850 on 2,920 contributions from 591 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money, not a verified dual-title roster.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join.

Why 591 records cannot be stretched into an executive census

PRESIDENT/C.E.O. in this extract is $43,919,850 on 2,920 itemizations from 591 donor records, or $43.9 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. Slash-and-period punctuation is doing real work here. Drop it and you are reading a different occupation page with different dollars. 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 $15,041 per contribution and about $74,314 per donor record, with roughly 5 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as PRESIDENT & CEO, PRESIDENT/CEO, CEO, and C.E.O. remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to PRESIDENT/C.E.O.. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. About $15,041 per line is an arithmetic mean on 2,920 itemizations. It is not evidence that every dual-title executive writes a five-figure check.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $43,919,850. A person who listed PRESIDENT/C.E.O. 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 PRESIDENT/C.E.O., dollars equal $43,919,850, contributions equal 2,920, donors equal 591. 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 ($43.9 million) are the same headline amount as $43,919,850, 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 PRESIDENT/C.E.O. 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 PRESIDENT/C.E.O. donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list PRESIDENT/C.E.O. sum to $43,919,850 across 2,920 contributions and 591 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter, not a combined executive-title cluster and not a licensed-officer census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why is the average gift so large for this occupation?

Dividing $43,919,850 by 2,920 itemizations yields about $15,041 per contribution, and dividing by 591 donors yields about $74,314 per donor record. Those means reflect a small line count relative to the dollars. They are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution.

Does this total include CEO or PRESIDENT & CEO?

No. CEO, C.E.O., PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT & CEO, and PRESIDENT/CEO are separate occupation strings. This page covers PRESIDENT/C.E.O. only: $43,919,850, 2,920 contributions, and 591 donors. Mixing keys without naming each source total changes the unit. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing PRESIDENT/C.E.O. prove the donor ran a public company?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. Private-company chiefs, nonprofit heads, and people using the dual title loosely can all appear. The FEC record does not verify corporate form. Quote the 2,920 contribution count and 591 donor records with the dollars.