What secretary-occupation donors give in federal races

High-repeat one-word title, a $187 mean

$10,153,281, 54,230 itemizations, and 2,018 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $187. Mean dollars per donor record are about $5,031. Repeat giving is about 27 itemizations per donor record.

54,230 lines from 2,018 records is a high-repeat stack. The $187 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume, not a typical clerical wage redirected to politics.

The packet has no clerical-versus-officer split, no employer field, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

SECRETARY does not specify clerical or corporate

The FEC record does not verify whether the donor is an administrative secretary or a corporate secretary. Cabinet-style uses of the word in other countries, nonprofit secretaries, and retirees can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $10,153,281, 54,230 contributions, and 2,018 donors. OFFICE MANAGER, ADMINISTRATOR, and EXECUTIVE remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and dual titles

2,018 donor records used SECRETARY on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed SECRETARY on some gifts and OFFICE MANAGER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the one-word title.

Industry pages group employers

Industry pages group employers. A law-firm secretary and a corporate secretary share this occupation string if they typed SECRETARY. Adding $10,153,281 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the SECRETARY occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to other administrative titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals SECRETARY, dollars equal $10,153,281, contributions equal 54,230, donors equal 2,018, 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 $10,153,281, 54,230 contributions, and 2,018 donors. Neighboring administrative titles stay on their own pages unless the extract merged them into SECRETARY.

Reading SECRETARY as an underspecified rank

SECRETARY in this extract is $10,153,281 on 54,230 itemizations from 2,018 donor records, or $10.2 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 office manager, administrator, or executive may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact SECRETARY key is in $10,153,281.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $187 per contribution and about $5,031 per donor record, with roughly 27 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining SECRETARY with neighboring administrative strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 2,018 donor records on 54,230 lines is a high-repeat underspecified pool, not a clerical census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $10,153,281. A person who listed SECRETARY 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 SECRETARY, dollars equal $10,153,281, contributions equal 54,230, donors equal 2,018. 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 SECRETARY occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($10.2 million) are the same headline amount as $10,153,281, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 54,230 contributions and 2,018 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the high-repeat underspecified rank rather than a clerical census. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text and does not split clerical from corporate secretary. A citation that stays inside the packet names SECRETARY, $10,153,281, 54,230, and 2,018 together.

Questions

How much have secretary-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The SECRETARY occupation string is attached to $10,153,281 across 54,230 contributions and 2,018 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of clerical workers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does SECRETARY mean clerical staff or corporate officers?

The one-word string does not say. The FEC does not split clerical from corporate secretary. This page covers SECRETARY: $10,153,281, 54,230 contributions, and 2,018 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average secretary contribution?

Dividing $10,153,281 by 54,230 itemizations yields about $187 per contribution. Dividing by 2,018 donors yields about $5,031 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 27 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing secretary prove the donor’s job duties?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify clerical versus officer rank. Quote 54,230 contributions and 2,018 donor records with the $10,153,281 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.