What REAL ESTATE BROKER donors give in federal races

Three facts behind $44,876,243

Among occupation strings in this extract, REAL ESTATE BROKER is a mid-to-high dollar label: $44,876,243 in summed amounts, 153,581 line items, and 11,039 donors. Dollars measure money posted. Contributions count each itemized transaction. Donors count distinct contributor records that used this occupation text on at least one matching line.

Dividing dollars by line items yields about $292 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,065 per donor record. Neither figure is a typical gift; both are arithmetic means over a long tail of small itemizations and a thinner set of large ones. The FEC file does not publish a median for this occupation field.

Repeat giving shows up in the ratio of itemizations to donors: roughly 14 contributions per donor record. Committees itemize each transaction that meets the reporting threshold, so frequent small gifts inflate the contribution count without changing the occupation string.

Broker is not realtor and not a NAICS code

FEC rules ask committees to report occupation using best efforts. The donor supplies the text. REAL ESTATE BROKER is stored as an exact occupation key after normalization in the bulk extract. Nearby labels such as REALTOR, REAL ESTATE, and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER sit on other pages and are not rolled into $44,876,243.

The field is not a census of licensed brokers. Retired brokers, dual-licensed agents, and people who once held a broker credential may still type this phrase. People who broker deals may type REALTOR, OWNER, or a firm title instead. The public record is the text on the itemization, not a department of real estate roster, and not a NAICS industry code.

Reading dollars, lines, and donor records together

A citation that showed only $44,876,243 would hide that the money arrived in 153,581 pieces. A citation that showed only 11,039 donors would hide how often those records reappear. Use all three facts. The mean of about $292 per line is closer to high-volume professional strings than to concentrated executive titles.

LobbyVault does not infer party, race, or motive from an occupation string. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. This hub is a filter on the contributor occupation column in FEC bulk data.

Spelling variants stay in other buckets

Occupation is free text. Real estate broker, Realtor, and broker-owner create parallel buckets when the typed string differs. REAL ESTATE BROKER here is one bucket. A donor who listed this phrase on one gift and REALTOR on another will appear in both occupation totals for the gifts that used each string.

The indexed total is the sum of amounts on matching itemizations in the bulk data LobbyVault loaded. Refunds, memo entries, and unitemized receipts follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules. This guide cites only $44,876,243, 153,581 contributions, and 11,039 donors.

Occupation pages versus industry pages

The REAL ESTATE BROKER occupation page lists the underlying rows and links into donor and committee records. The all-occupations index shows how this string sits next to other self-reported titles. Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to this occupation total; that would mix two filters.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $44.9 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Open the occupation hub for the working table.

Using REAL ESTATE BROKER as a disclosure unit

REAL ESTATE BROKER in this extract is $44,876,243 on 153,581 itemizations from 11,039 donor records, or $44.9 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. Housing researchers sometimes want a licensed-broker figure. The FEC file does not supply one. It supplies this three-word occupation string and the three harvested facts. 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 $292 per contribution and about $4,065 per donor record, with roughly 14 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as REALTOR, REAL ESTATE, and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to REAL ESTATE BROKER. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. The 11,039 donor records are a wider pool than several executive titles with similar headline dollars, which is why the mean line stays near $292 rather than in the thousands.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $44,876,243. A person who listed REAL ESTATE BROKER 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 REAL ESTATE BROKER, dollars equal $44,876,243, contributions equal 153,581, donors equal 11,039. 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 ($44.9 million) are the same headline amount as $44,876,243, 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 REAL ESTATE BROKER 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 REAL ESTATE BROKER donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list the occupation REAL ESTATE BROKER sum to $44,876,243 in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data, across 153,581 contributions and 11,039 donor records. That figure is the occupation-field total, not a count of licensed brokers and not a single election cycle unless the hub table is filtered that way.

Is REAL ESTATE BROKER the same as REALTOR in FEC data?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. REAL ESTATE BROKER and REALTOR are stored as separate strings. Totals on this page do not include gifts where the donor wrote REALTOR, REAL ESTATE, or REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER unless that text normalized to REAL ESTATE BROKER. The matching line count is 153,581 from 11,039 donor records.

What is the average REAL ESTATE BROKER contribution?

Dividing $44,876,243 by 153,581 itemizations yields about $292 per contribution. Dividing by 11,039 donors yields about $4,065 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Occupation is donor-typed text on Form 3/3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does this total mean brokers funded a party as a bloc?

No. The occupation column does not encode party. $44,876,243 is money on itemizations that happen to carry this occupation string. Recipient committees and candidates are separate fields in the FEC file. Cite 153,581 contributions and 11,039 donor records with the dollars when quoting the key.