What senior advisor donors give in federal races

A small donor pool relative to the dollars

$6,709,535 is the occupation-level dollar total. 6,326 is the itemization count. 433 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $1,061 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $15,495 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 15 itemizations per donor record. Four hundred thirty-three donor records produced this dollar total on 6,326 itemizations—fewer people than many occupation pages with similar sums.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $1,061 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Because the headcount is 433, name collisions and committee transcription errors have more leverage on the occupation sum than they would in a two-thousand-person bucket.

Advisor, senior advisor, and consultant

SENIOR ADVISOR, ADVISOR, SENIOR CONSULTANT, and CONSULTANT are separate occupation keys when they appear in the bulk file. A person who files senior advisor in one cycle and consultant in the next will not stay in a single occupation total.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals SENIOR ADVISOR after indexing. ADVISOR, CONSULTANT, and SENIOR CONSULTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to SENIOR ADVISOR.

What 433 donor records can and cannot show

433 donor records used SENIOR ADVISOR on at least one matching itemization. It cannot tell you whether the donor advised a member of Congress, a CEO, or a campaign. Employer is a different column on the same schedule.

A person who listed SENIOR ADVISOR on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

What the occupation field cannot tell you

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. A senior advisor at a firm and one on a campaign staff share this occupation string if they typed SENIOR ADVISOR. Adding $6,709,535 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the SENIOR ADVISOR occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $6,709,535.

How to cite the senior advisor key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: SENIOR ADVISOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,709,535 on 6,326 contributions from 433 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Treat occupation as a filter on FEC.gov disclosure, not as evidence of anyone’s clients.

Reading SENIOR ADVISOR as an uncoded rank

SENIOR ADVISOR in this extract is $6,709,535 on 6,326 itemizations from 433 donor records, or $6.7 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. Senior is an honorific in free text; the FEC does not rank advisors. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $1,061 per contribution and about $15,495 per donor record, with roughly 15 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. ADVISOR, CONSULTANT, and SENIOR CONSULTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to SENIOR ADVISOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $6,709,535. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals SENIOR ADVISOR, dollars equal $6,709,535, contributions equal 6,326, donors equal 433. 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 ($6.7 million) are the same headline amount as $6,709,535, 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 the shape of SENIOR ADVISOR in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have senior advisor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list SENIOR ADVISOR sum to $6,709,535 across 6,326 contributions and 433 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does senior advisor mean a White House or Hill job?

Not from the occupation field alone. The same two words appear across sectors. SENIOR ADVISOR still sums to $6,709,535 from 6,326 contributions and 433 donor records. Check employer on individual rows for workplace context. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Is this merged with advisor?

No. ADVISOR is a different occupation key. Combining the two would invent a total this packet does not contain. This page is $6,709,535, 6,326 lines, and 433 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I inspect the itemizations?

The SENIOR ADVISOR occupation page lists indexed lines. Confirm amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total remains $6,709,535. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.