REAL ESTATE as an occupation string, not an industry code

Three related labels, three keys

Donors describe property work in different words. REAL ESTATE is this page: $103,921,024, 212,697 contributions, 16,879 donors. REALTOR and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER are other pages with other facts. A broker who wrote REALTOR is not in this sum. A developer who wrote the longer title is not in this sum.

Mean line size on REAL ESTATE is about $489 per contribution. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,157. About 13 contributions per donor is the repeat rate. Those means describe this string only.

Investors in property who wrote INVESTOR land on the INVESTOR page. Occupation is the word filed, not a sector assignment.

Occupation versus industry views

LobbyVault industry pages group employer-side categories. A person can list REAL ESTATE as occupation and an unrelated employer, or list a brokerage as employer and OWNER as occupation. Adding occupation and industry dollars double-counts overlapping rows.

Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single itemization. The occupations index is the place to see REAL ESTATE next to REALTOR and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER without merging them.

What 16,879 donors does not measure

16,879 is a contributor-record count, not a count of licensed agents or of property firms. Best-efforts collection records donor text. There is no MLS or license match.

Retired agents, landlords, and people with rental income may type REAL ESTATE. The FEC box does not encode whether the person sells, owns, manages, or develops. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $103.9 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

Cite $103,921,024, 212,697 contributions, and 16,879 donors. Open the REAL ESTATE occupation page for rows. Do not assign party from the occupation column. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $103.9 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Self-reporting caveat

Spelling, hyphenation, and extra words create parallel buckets. This overlay is the REAL ESTATE match in the indexed extract. Longer phrases that did not normalize to this key live elsewhere.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep REAL ESTATE 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 $103.9 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $103.9 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

REAL ESTATE occupation is not a property-industry rollup

REAL ESTATE is $103.9 million on 212,697 itemizations from 16,879 donor records. REALTOR and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER are separate keys. Mean amounts here are about $489 per itemization and about $6,157 per donor record, with about 13 itemizations per donor. A broker who wrote REALTOR is not in $103,921,024. A developer who wrote the longer title is not in it either.

Industry pages group employer categories and will overlap some of these rows. Adding occupation and industry dollars double-counts. For a public-record sentence, occupation equals REAL ESTATE and the three facts travel together. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet does not. Unitemized receipts never carry this occupation code. REAL ESTATE as occupation is the short property word. Sixteen thousand eight hundred seventy-nine donor records and 212,697 itemizations produced $103.9 million. REALTOR and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER are the membership-style and developer-style neighbors. Industry pages for property will overlap some rows and miss others. One filter at a time. Three facts on this string only.

Questions

How much have REAL ESTATE occupation donors given?

Occupation REAL ESTATE is attached to $103,921,024 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 212,697 contributions and 16,879 donor records. REALTOR and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER are separate strings. 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 this the same as real-estate industry giving?

No. This page filters the occupation column. Industry pages filter employer categories. The two cuts are not interchangeable and should not be added. The matching contribution count is 212,697 and the matching donor-record count is 16,879. 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.

Are realtors included in REAL ESTATE?

Only if the occupation text normalized to REAL ESTATE. Donors who wrote REALTOR are on the REALTOR page. This total does not merge those keys. The matching contribution count is 212,697 and the matching donor-record count is 16,879. 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.

What is the average REAL ESTATE contribution?

$103,921,024 divided by 212,697 itemizations is about $489 per contribution. Divided by 16,879 donors, the mean is about $6,157 per donor record. 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.