Professor donors in FEC occupation records

A million itemizations on a mid-pack dollar total

1,004,889 contributions is an unusually high line count for $143,456,267. The mean itemization is about $143, among the smallest means in this occupation harvest. 24,104 donor records imply about $5,952 per donor and about 42 contributions per donor record.

That pattern is high-frequency, modest-size itemizing. Many PROFESSOR records reappear across filings. The packet does not say whether those repeats are monthly small gifts, bundled items, or gifts to many committees. It only supplies the three occupation-level numbers.

Teacher, lecturer, instructor, and adjunct are other strings if donors used those words. This page is PROFESSOR only. Combining academic titles would invent a total the bulk file does not publish.

Academic titles as free text

Assistant, associate, and full professors may all type PROFESSOR. So may retired faculty and people who teach part time. The FEC occupation box does not encode rank, tenure, or campus. Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word.

A faculty member who wrote PHYSICIAN, SCIENTIST, or RESEARCHER instead will appear on those pages. Occupation is stored per itemization, so mixed titles across gifts split the person’s dollars.

What 24,104 donors measures

24,104 is a contributor-record count, not a census of U.S. faculty. Shared university employer names can make rows look clustered without proving coordination. This overlay does not group by employer or campus.

Industry pages that touch education will not equal $143,456,267. Occupation and industry are different columns. Adding them double-counts overlapping lines. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $143.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Reading the hub without extra narrative

Lead with $143,456,267, 1,004,889 contributions, and 24,104 donors. Open the PROFESSOR occupation page for recipient rows. Use the occupations index to compare PROFESSOR with TEACHER as separate keys.

The occupation column does not carry party. Do not treat faculty giving as a bloc preference. Cite FEC.gov itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $143.5 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 limits

Unitemized receipts are absent from occupation totals. The harvested facts have no cycle year. Live table filters may change the displayed sums. Occupation remains self-reported free text.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep PROFESSOR 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 $143.5 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $143.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

PROFESSOR frequency without a campus file

PROFESSOR is $143.5 million on 1,004,889 itemizations from 24,104 donor records. More than a million lines on a mid-pack dollar total produces a mean near $143 and about 42 itemizations per donor record. TEACHER is a separate key with its own high-frequency pattern. Combining them into “educators” requires a footnote that lists both strings.

Rank is not in the box. Assistant and full professors who typed PROFESSOR share this total. Faculty who typed PHYSICIAN or RESEARCHER do not. 24,104 is not U.S. faculty employment. Industry pages that touch education will not equal $143,456,267. Cite FEC.gov bulk itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, occupation self-reported. PROFESSOR generated more than a million itemizations from 24,104 donor records for $143.5 million. Mean line size near $143 and about 42 itemizations per donor record are the academic-title signature in this harvest. TEACHER is the K-12-leaning sibling with its own million-scale line count. Rank and campus are not in the box. Keep the two educator strings on two lines.

Questions

How much have PROFESSOR donors given in FEC data?

Occupation PROFESSOR is attached to $143,456,267 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 1,004,889 contributions and 24,104 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a university employment match. 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.

Why are there more than a million professor contributions?

1,004,889 itemizations from 24,104 donors implies about 42 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $143. The packet does not include a median or a gift-size table. 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.

Is TEACHER included in the PROFESSOR total?

No. TEACHER is a separate occupation string. Only lines that normalized to PROFESSOR are in $143,456,267, 1,004,889 contributions, and 24,104 donors. 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.

Does PROFESSOR include K-12 teachers who used that word?

If they typed PROFESSOR, those lines are here. The FEC field does not verify campus level. Most K-12 donors who wrote TEACHER are on the TEACHER page instead. The matching contribution count is 1,004,889 and the matching donor-record count is 24,104. 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.