SALES occupation itemizations in FEC bulk data

High frequency, modest dollars per line

384,165 itemizations against $70,603,695 implies about $184 per contribution. 16,747 donor records imply about $4,216 per donor and about 23 contributions per donor record. The shape matches other high-repeat professional labels more than dollar-heavy investor titles.

Sales manager, salesperson, and account executive are other strings if that is what the donor wrote. This page is the SALES match: $70,603,695, 384,165 contributions, 16,747 donors.

A 23-to-1 itemization ratio means many SALES records reappear across filings. The packet does not split recurring gifts from multi-committee giving.

Occupation is not industry

Industry pages group employer categories. A sales employee at a bank and a sales employee at a manufacturer can share this occupation string and split across industries. Adding occupation and industry totals double-counts overlapping rows.

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. There is no commission-statement verification. Retired salespeople may still type SALES.

What 16,747 donors is not

16,747 is a contributor-record count, not U.S. sales employment. Address variants can split people. Shared first-and-last names are handled as FEC contributor records, not as a custom identity model.

Employer, when filled, may name a firm. Employer is not one of the three packet facts. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $70.6 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Using the hub

Cite $70,603,695, 384,165 contributions, and 16,747 donors. Open the SALES occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to compare SALES with MANAGER, CONSULTANT, and EXECUTIVE as separate keys.

Do not assign party from the function word. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $70.6 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Limits

Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. These three numbers do not measure sales-industry PAC activity, which would appear on other committee filings.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep SALES 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 $70.6 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $70.6 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions. Compact millions for this occupation string appear in the lede as a rounded form of the same headline dollar total.

SALES as a function, not a product category

SALES is $70.6 million on 384,165 itemizations from 16,747 donor records. About 23 itemizations per donor record and about $184 per line describe high-frequency function-title giving. The box does not say whether the product is software, insurance, or industrial equipment. Sales manager and account executive are other strings unless they normalized to SALES.

Industry pages group employer categories. A sales employee at a bank and a sales employee at a manufacturer share this occupation string and can split across industries. Adding those industry dollars to $70,603,695 double-counts. 16,747 is not U.S. sales employment. Cite the three SALES facts as an occupation-column filter only. SALES is a function, not a catalog of products. Sixteen thousand seven hundred forty-seven donor records and 384,165 itemizations produced $70.6 million, about $184 per line and about 23 itemizations per donor record. Account executive and salesperson may live in other keys. Industry pages will split these records by employer sector. Do not add those industry dollars here.

Questions

How much have SALES-occupation donors given?

Occupation SALES is attached to $70,603,695 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 384,165 contributions and 16,747 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a sector revenue figure. 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 SALES tell me what the donor sells?

No. Occupation is free text. Product and employer, when present, are other fields. This page’s $70,603,695 does not encode industry. The matching contribution count is 384,165 and the matching donor-record count is 16,747. 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.

Why are there so many sales itemizations?

384,165 contributions from 16,747 donors implies about 23 itemizations per donor record. Repeat giving raises the line count. Mean line size is about $184. 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 sales-industry giving?

No. This overlay filters the occupation column. Industry pages use employer categories. The two cuts should not be added. The matching contribution count is 384,165 and the matching donor-record count is 16,747. 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.