PRESIDENT as an FEC occupation string

Dollars versus how often the title appears

The PRESIDENT bucket is large in money and smaller in transaction count than several professional labels. $524,537,942 across 728,591 itemizations implies about $720 per contribution. Spread across 71,381 donors, the mean is about $7,348 per donor record. Both means sit well above many high-volume occupations that post more gifts at lower amounts.

The itemization-to-donor ratio is about 10 contributions per donor record. That is fewer repeat lines than labels that generate twenty or thirty itemizations per person. The file still includes people who gave once and people who gave many times; the ratio is only a file-wide average.

Nothing in these three facts assigns the money to a party, a chamber, or a presidential campaign. PRESIDENT on the occupation line is independent of the candidate office field elsewhere on the same schedules.

Why the label is easy to misread

Searchers often treat PRESIDENT as a political office. In FEC contributor records it is an occupation. A bank president, a nonprofit president, and a closely held-company president can all type the same six letters. Vice presidents, CEOs, and chairmen who use those other words are stored on other occupation pages.

Committees are required to use best efforts to collect occupation. They are not required to verify that the donor is a sitting chief executive. Typos, abbreviations, and bilingual titles may land in other strings. This page is the exact PRESIDENT match in the indexed bulk data.

What the contribution count adds

728,591 itemizations mean the $524,537,942 did not arrive as a small set of headline checks. Each line is a reported transaction that passed the itemization rules in effect for that filing. Unitemized amounts under the threshold never appear in occupation-coded itemizations at all.

71,381 donors is the count of contributor records attached to those lines. Joint gifts, name variants, and changed addresses can split or merge people across records. The FEC identifier scheme is what LobbyVault inherits; this guide does not add a separate person-matching layer. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $524.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

How to use the occupation hub without overclaiming

Use the PRESIDENT occupation page to open the itemized rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring titles such as CEO, EXECUTIVE, and VICE PRESIDENT, each with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. Industry pages describe employer categories and will not equal this occupation total.

Cite $524,537,942, 728,591 contributions, and 71,381 donors as file facts. Do not treat them as a headcount of corporate presidents in the United States or as proof of a coordinated giving program. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $524.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Source and field definition

The source is FEC.gov bulk itemizations on Form 3 and Form 3X schedules, indexed on LobbyVault. Occupation is a contributor-supplied field. Employer is a separate field and is not part of the three facts on this packet. If a donor listed PRESIDENT in occupation and a company name in employer, only the occupation string places the gift in this total.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep PRESIDENT on its own line with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring strings. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut and should not be added to this occupation total. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $524.5 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract.

Separating the job title from candidate-office fields

FEC schedules also contain an office sought by candidates. That field is not this occupation key. PRESIDENT as occupation is $524.5 million on 728,591 itemizations from 71,381 donor records, almost always a company or nonprofit title. A presidential candidate’s own committee receipts are a different join. Mixing those tables produces a sentence that sounds like White House fundraising and is not what the occupation column holds.

When writing about corporate officers, keep PRESIDENT, CEO, C.E.O., VICE PRESIDENT, and EXECUTIVE on separate lines. PRESIDENT’s mean of about $720 per itemization and about $7,348 per donor record describes this string only. A donor who listed PRESIDENT on Monday and CEO on Tuesday is in both occupation totals for those two gifts. The 71,381 donor records are therefore a count of records that used this word at least once, not a closed set of people who never used another title.

Questions

Are PRESIDENT occupation donors U.S. presidents?

No. PRESIDENT is the text donors wrote in the occupation box on FEC itemizations. The indexed total of $524,537,942 comes from 71,381 donor records using that job-title string, typically organization presidents, not holders of the presidency. The matching contribution count is 728,591 and the matching donor-record count is 71,381. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

How much money is attached to the PRESIDENT occupation?

LobbyVault’s index of FEC bulk data shows $524,537,942 on 728,591 contributions. Those are itemized amounts where occupation normalized to PRESIDENT. Unitemized receipts are outside this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

How many people listed PRESIDENT as occupation?

71,381 donor records are tied to the PRESIDENT occupation string. That is a count of contributor records in the bulk file, not a verified census of sitting presidents of companies. The matching contribution count is 728,591 and the matching donor-record count is 71,381. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

Is PRESIDENT combined with CEO or VICE PRESIDENT?

No. Each occupation string is totaled on its own page. Gifts labeled CEO, C.E.O., VICE PRESIDENT, or EXECUTIVE are excluded from the $524,537,942 PRESIDENT sum unless the occupation text matched PRESIDENT. The matching contribution count is 728,591 and the matching donor-record count is 71,381. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.