SALES as FEC employer text: $6.3 million

A department name stored as an industry key

LobbyVault’s industry table ranks grouped employer text. Many contributors type a company. 921 people typed SALES. The $6,304,302 total is those itemized gifts. It is not retail revenue and not a census of people whose occupation box also says sales.

A donor who listed PFIZER INC, AT&T, FACEBOOK, or INSURANCE AGENT sits in another row. Occupation pages can show sales as a title beside a named employer. This page stays on the employer-box string SALES.

Inside sales, field sales, and people who used SALES as a department name can share this key. The $6,304,302 total cannot be read as a single employer’s sales force.

921 donors and 24,216 lines

921 unique donors produced 24,216 SALES contribution lines totaling $6,304,302. That is on the order of 26 itemized receipts per donor. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among pharma, software, and insurance sales. BROKER is a different function key.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any trade-association committee filings are outside the $6,304,302 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

921 unique donors produced 24,216 lines. Named-employer receipts for the same people, if they later typed a brand, sit in those other keys. This page does not follow them there.

Business executive, broker, and named employers

BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, BROKER, INSURANCE AGENT, and named companies are separate strings. Combining them with SALES would mix distinct FEC fields. This page reports $6,304,302 for SALES only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside whatever employer was typed. ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR COMPANY and FORD MOTOR COMPANY capture people who listed those firms instead of the word SALES.

Donor table

The SALES donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a quota, a territory, or a motive to that line. Retired salespeople who still type SALES share the string with people currently on payroll. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Repeat names are expected among 24,216 lines from 921 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the function string.

SALES on the donor table is a function word, not a company. 24,216 lines from 921 donors totaling $6,304,302 mix industries whenever filers skipped the brand. PFIZER INC, AT&T, and FORD MOTOR COMPANY receipts sit on those company pages. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE is a rank title, not a recode of SALES.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $6,304,302, 24,216 contributions, 921 donors, top employer SALES. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare BUSINESS EXECUTIVE and BROKER on the industry index. Use occupation breakdowns for titles stored beside a named employer.

Function text versus named-employer payroll

SALES grouped $6,304,302 from 921 donors and 24,216 lines. PFIZER INC, AT&T, FACEBOOK, ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR COMPANY, and FORD MOTOR COMPANY are company keys. A salesperson who typed a brand is not in these 921 donors on that receipt. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE and BROKER are other function titles.

Unitemized gifts and trade-association PAC filings stay outside the $6,304,302 unless an individual receipt lists SALES. The packet does not publish a split among pharma, software, and insurance sales.

Use the donor table for disclosed recipients. LobbyVault does not attach a quota or a territory to a large gift. Occupation pages show sales as a title beside a named employer when that is how the form was filled. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS wholesale total.

Keep SALES’s $6,304,302, 24,216 contributions, and 921 donors on this function string. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE and BROKER stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show sales as a title beside a named employer when that is how the form was filled. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS wholesale total.

Questions

How much have SALES-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $6,304,302 to the SALES employer string, from 24,216 contributions and 921 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a company PAC and not a NAICS wholesale total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is SALES a company on FEC forms?

On this row it functions as employer text: 921 donors typed SALES where filers usually put a firm. It is not a single company’s treasury. People who listed a brand such as PFIZER INC or AT&T sit in those other rows. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts are omitted.

Does this include brokers or business executives?

No. BROKER and BUSINESS EXECUTIVE are separate employer strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text SALES. Staff who typed a company legal name are in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed SALES?

The rollup counts 921 donors and 24,216 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a headcount of working salespeople. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.