TEACHER occupation itemizations in FEC data

High line count, small mean gift

831,593 itemizations against $92,518,340 implies about $111 per contribution, the lowest mean among the occupation keys in this harvest. 18,758 donor records imply about $4,932 per donor and about 44 contributions per donor record. The shape is many repeated modest itemizations.

A 44-to-1 itemization ratio means TEACHER records reappear often across filings. That can reflect recurring small gifts that still clear the itemization threshold, gifts to many committees, or both. The packet does not split those cases.

Educator, instructor, and professor are other strings. This page is TEACHER only. Combining classroom titles would invent a total the bulk file does not publish.

Self-reporting across school levels

The FEC occupation box does not encode K-12 versus college, public versus private, or subject. A preschool teacher and a high-school teacher who both typed TEACHER share this key. A college faculty member who typed PROFESSOR is on the PROFESSOR page.

Best-efforts rules require committees to ask for occupation, not to verify a teaching credential. Retired teachers may still use the word. 18,758 is a contributor-record count, not a union membership file.

What the dollars do not say

$92,518,340 is itemized TEACHER activity in the loaded extract. It is not teacher-union independent expenditure, which would appear on other FEC forms and is not in these three facts. Occupation filters contributor job text, not spender type.

Party and candidate office live on other fields. This overlay does not assign them. Industry pages that touch education use employer categories and will not equal this occupation total. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $92.5 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 $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, and 18,758 donors. Open the TEACHER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to compare TEACHER with PROFESSOR without merging them.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $92.5 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

Live hub filters may change displayed sums. Spelling variants and longer titles such as teacher/coach are included only if they normalized to TEACHER. Do not treat the mean of about $111 as a typical paycheck deduction; it is an arithmetic mean of itemized lines.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep TEACHER 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 $92.5 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $92.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

TEACHER frequency is not union independent expenditure

TEACHER is $92.5 million on 831,593 itemizations from 18,758 donor records. Mean line size is about $111, the lowest among keys in this harvest, with about 44 itemizations per donor record. PROFESSOR is excluded. Educator and instructor are other strings. This overlay is TEACHER only.

Union committee spending is a different FEC category. Occupation TEACHER filters contributor job text on itemized individual receipts. It does not measure NEA or AFT independent expenditures. School level is not in the box. 18,758 is not a credential file. Industry pages that touch education will not equal $92,518,340. Keep the three facts together. TEACHER is the high-frequency classroom string: 18,758 donor records, 831,593 itemizations, $92.5 million, about $111 per line. PROFESSOR is the campus-leaning sibling. Union independent expenditure is a different FEC category. Credential checks do not happen on the occupation box. Cite TEACHER as self-reported job text on itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much have TEACHER donors given in FEC records?

Occupation TEACHER is attached to $92,518,340 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donor records. PROFESSOR is a separate string and is not included. 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.

Why are there so many teacher contributions?

831,593 itemizations from 18,758 donors implies about 44 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $111. The packet does not include a median. 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 TEACHER include professors?

Only if they typed TEACHER. Faculty who wrote PROFESSOR are on the PROFESSOR page. This total is the TEACHER match: $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, 18,758 donors. 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 union PAC spending?

No. These facts are contributor occupation totals on itemized receipts. Union committee spending is a different FEC filing category and is not in this packet. The matching contribution count is 831,593 and the matching donor-record count is 18,758. 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.