EXECUTIVE

Why Executive and 2012 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like strings that appear often enough on FEC schedules to form their own buckets. Executive is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2012 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $1,223,097 — a cell, not a verdict on executives as a class. Named-company keys such as a bank or a software employer are stored separately even when a filer might also be an executive there.

The same Executive grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $87,249,417. The 2012 slice is about 1.4% of that stack. A presidential-year cell that is a small fraction of a large occupation bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2012 was quiet in federal politics overall; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Executive filter.

What the Executive string actually captures

Donors type titles. Some write CEO, some write president, some write Executive. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy on this site. People who listed a company name instead of a title land in employer groupings, not here. People who listed Executive and a company may still be rolled to this occupation-style key depending on the match rules. The packet does not publish those rules in detail; it publishes the resulting totals.

Because the label is generic, the 254 donors in 2012 are not a sample of one firm. They are 254 contributor identities whose matched text fell in the Executive grouping. Mixing this page with a named-company join would double-count or mis-attribute dollars. Keep the keys separate. A filer who listed both a title and a company name may still land in only one rollup on this site; the packet does not publish a dual-key assignment.

Questions

How much did Executive-labeled donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,223,097 in itemized individual contributions for the Executive grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 886 contributions and 254 donors. The label is a self-reported text bucket, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation count.

Why is 2012 only 1.4% of the Executive total?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $87,249,417. $1,223,097 divided by that figure is about 1.4%. Other cycles in the same employer/occupation key make up the remainder. This page isolates 2012 only.

Are these corporate executives at one company?

No. Executive is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC employer and occupation text. The 254 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm.

Where is the overlay table for this join?

The Executive 2012 cycle overlay lists the underlying rows for this cell. The Executive industry hub and the 2012 election cycle hub remove one filter each. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.