What public-relations occupation donors give in federal races

High-repeat communications field, a $267 mean

$8,958,749, 33,552 itemizations, and 1,549 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $267. Mean dollars per donor record are about $5,783. Repeat giving is about 22 itemizations per donor record.

33,552 lines from 1,549 records is a high-repeat communications-field stack. The $267 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume, not a typical retainer redirected to politics.

The packet has no agency-versus-in-house split, no client field, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average.

PUBLIC RELATIONS is not MARKETING

The FEC record does not verify a PR job. Communications staff, consultants, and people who typed MARKETING sit on other keys unless the extract merged them. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $8,958,749, 33,552 contributions, and 1,549 donors. MARKETING and GOVERNMENT RELATIONS remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping communications titles

1,549 donor records used PUBLIC RELATIONS on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed PUBLIC RELATIONS on some gifts and MARKETING on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the field phrase.

Industry pages group employers

Industry pages group employers. PUBLIC RELATIONS as occupation is the donor’s field text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $8,958,749 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the PUBLIC RELATIONS occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to MARKETING and other communications titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals PUBLIC RELATIONS, dollars equal $8,958,749, contributions equal 33,552, donors equal 1,549, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the high-repeat mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $8,958,749, 33,552 contributions, and 1,549 donors. MARKETING stays on its own page unless the extract merged it into PUBLIC RELATIONS.

Reading PUBLIC RELATIONS next to MARKETING

PUBLIC RELATIONS in this extract is $8,958,749 on 33,552 itemizations from 1,549 donor records, or $9.0 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. People who type marketing, communications, or consultant may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact PUBLIC RELATIONS key is in $8,958,749.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $267 per contribution and about $5,783 per donor record, with roughly 22 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining PUBLIC RELATIONS with MARKETING without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,549 donor records on 33,552 lines is a high-repeat field-label pool, not an agency census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $8,958,749. A person who listed PUBLIC RELATIONS on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PUBLIC RELATIONS, dollars equal $8,958,749, contributions equal 33,552, donors equal 1,549. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live PUBLIC RELATIONS occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($9.0 million) are the same headline amount as $8,958,749, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 33,552 contributions and 1,549 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the high-repeat communications field separately from MARKETING. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not an agency roster. A citation that stays inside the packet names PUBLIC RELATIONS, $8,958,749, 33,552, and 1,549 together.

Questions

How much have public-relations occupation donors given in FEC data?

The PUBLIC RELATIONS occupation string is attached to $8,958,749 across 33,552 contributions and 1,549 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of PR firms. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does PUBLIC RELATIONS include marketing filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized MARKETING to this phrase. Otherwise MARKETING is a separate key. This page covers PUBLIC RELATIONS: $8,958,749, 33,552 contributions, and 1,549 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average public-relations contribution?

Dividing $8,958,749 by 33,552 itemizations yields about $267 per contribution. Dividing by 1,549 donors yields about $5,783 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 22 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing public relations prove the donor works at a PR agency?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify employer or client list. Quote 33,552 contributions and 1,549 donor records with the $8,958,749 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.