What PSYCHOLOGIST donors give in federal races

230,892 lines under $32.2 million

Mean contribution size is about $139, among the lower per-line means in this harvest band. Mean dollars per donor record is about $6,117. Repeat giving is about 44 itemizations per donor record—far above many executive titles with similar headline dollars.

The shape is frequent small itemizations from a mid-size donor pool. A citation that quotes only $32,154,906 hides that pattern. Quote the 230,892 contribution count with the dollars.

These means are not typical-check estimates. The packet has no median and no party split.

Psychologist is not psychiatrist and not a license roster

Occupation is self-reported free text. PSYCHOLOGIST is stored as an exact key. Nearby clinical titles remain other pages unless the bulk extract normalized them here. This guide cites only $32,154,906, 230,892 contributions, and 5,257 donors.

The FEC record does not verify a state psychology license. Researchers, counselors, retirees, and people using the noun loosely can appear. Cross-walking this page to a licensing board would overstate or understate the overlap.

What 5,257 donor records mean

5,257 donor records used PSYCHOLOGIST on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. The high repeat rate means those records reappear often; it does not prove a coordinated giving program.

LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Recipient committees are a different join.

Industry pages are not this clinical filter

Industry tables group employers. Psychologists in private practice and psychologists on payrolls share this occupation string if they typed PSYCHOLOGIST. Adding $32,154,906 to a health-care industry total double-counts.

Open the PSYCHOLOGIST occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring clinical titles as separate keys.

How to cite a high-repeat occupation

A usable citation keeps the line count: PSYCHOLOGIST itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $32,154,906 on 230,892 contributions from 5,257 donor records. Dropping 230,892 makes the money look more concentrated than the file shows.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

Itemization cadence versus a license board

PSYCHOLOGIST in this extract is $32,154,906 on 230,892 itemizations from 5,257 donor records, or $32.2 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. Psychology boards count licensees. FEC schedules count itemized transactions that happen to carry this noun. Those are different units. 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 $139 per contribution and about $6,117 per donor record, with roughly 44 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as other clinical titles stored as separate keys remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to PSYCHOLOGIST. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. About 44 lines per donor record is the fact that distinguishes this key from executive titles with similar headline dollars and far fewer lines.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $32,154,906. A person who listed PSYCHOLOGIST 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 PSYCHOLOGIST, dollars equal $32,154,906, contributions equal 230,892, donors equal 5,257. 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 ($32.2 million) are the same headline amount as $32,154,906, 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 PSYCHOLOGIST 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 PSYCHOLOGIST donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list PSYCHOLOGIST sum to $32,154,906 across 230,892 contributions and 5,257 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a licensed-psychologist census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why are there so many PSYCHOLOGIST contributions?

230,892 is a transaction count, not a headcount. Repeat giving is about 44 itemizations per donor record among 5,257 donors. Committees itemize each gift that meets the reporting threshold. The dollar total remains $32,154,906. The packet has no median. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average PSYCHOLOGIST contribution?

Dividing $32,154,906 by 230,892 itemizations yields about $139 per contribution. Dividing by 5,257 donors yields about $6,117 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. The low per-line mean is the counterpart of the high line count. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing PSYCHOLOGIST prove a clinical license?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify a state board credential. Quote 230,892 contributions and 5,257 donor records with the $32,154,906 headline. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.