What product manager donors give in federal races

The occupation aggregates

$6,561,017 is the occupation-level dollar total. 36,068 is the itemization count. 1,415 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $182 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,637 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 25 itemizations per donor record. The line count is high relative to the headcount, which fits recurring online gifts and multi-committee giving rather than a few large itemizations.

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 $182 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Product manager, senior product manager, and PM are different occupation keys if they appear as different text. A donor who adds senior on a later form leaves this total.

Free text on Schedule A

There is no SOC code for product manager on the FEC form. The 1,415-donor figure is a distinct-person count inside this exact label after indexing—not a labor-statistics estimate of product managers.

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 PRODUCT MANAGER after indexing. SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, PROJECT MANAGER, and PROGRAM MANAGER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to PRODUCT MANAGER.

What 36,068 lines imply—and what they do not

1,415 donor records used PRODUCT MANAGER on at least one matching itemization. Product managers at a bank, a hospital vendor, and a social app can share this occupation string while landing in different industry buckets.

A person who listed PRODUCT MANAGER 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.

Exclusions and neighboring manager titles

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Do not read this total as the tech industry’s federal giving. It is one job-title string summed from FEC bulk itemizations. Adding $6,561,017 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the PRODUCT MANAGER 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 $6,561,017.

How to cite the product manager key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: PRODUCT MANAGER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,561,017 on 36,068 contributions from 1,415 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. Occupation is a search filter on public records, not a claim about product strategy.

Treating PRODUCT MANAGER as a private-sector nonce title

PRODUCT MANAGER in this extract is $6,561,017 on 36,068 itemizations from 1,415 donor records, or $6.6 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. Product manager is a private-sector nonce title; the FEC does not map it to a federal occupational series. 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 $182 per contribution and about $4,637 per donor record, with roughly 25 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, PROJECT MANAGER, and PROGRAM MANAGER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to PRODUCT MANAGER. 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 $6,561,017. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PRODUCT MANAGER, dollars equal $6,561,017, contributions equal 36,068, donors equal 1,415. 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 ($6.6 million) are the same headline amount as $6,561,017, 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 PRODUCT MANAGER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have product manager donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list PRODUCT MANAGER sum to $6,561,017 across 36,068 contributions and 1,415 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.

Is product manager the same as project manager in FEC data?

No. Occupation matching is exact. PRODUCT MANAGER and PROJECT MANAGER are different strings. This page covers $6,561,017, 36,068 contributions, and 1,415 donors. Combining them would invent a total this packet does not publish. 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 this total represent the tech industry?

No. It is one job-title string. Product managers work in many sectors. Industry pages group employer-side data. The occupation total remains $6,561,017 from 1,415 donor records. 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 can I see the underlying FEC rows?

Open the PRODUCT MANAGER occupation page for the indexed list, then verify on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $6,561,017 on 36,068 lines. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.