REALTOR

Occupation string × 2012 cycle

Realtor here is not a trade association’s PAC and not a license roster. It is the employer/occupation text that filers entered, then grouped. The other key is the 2012 federal cycle. Dollars appear on this page only when both keys match. That intersection is $1,992,036.

1,918 contributions from 417 donors is a broad cell compared with single-donor employer pages. Many people used the same short occupation word. Average gift size is about $1,039; average per donor is about $4,777. Those means sit near ordinary itemized individual gifts, unlike cells built from a handful of six-figure receipts.

The join explains a relationship between an occupation label and a two-year window. It does not score the real-estate industry’s political power.

Realtor money beyond 2012

The occupation hub shows $34,870,820 in itemized individual money across every cycle in the table. 2012’s $1,992,036 is about 5.7% of that stack. Other two-year windows, including other presidential years, hold the rest. The 2012 overlay is the wrong place to read the full occupation history.

Occupation strings are messy. Some filers write Realtor, some Real Estate Agent, some a brokerage name. This bucket captures the Realtor grouping only. Parallel occupation pages are separate joins, not double-counts of the same receipt unless the pipeline actually duplicated a row.

Questions

How much did Realtor-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Realtor grouping’s 2012-cycle cell is $1,992,036 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,918 contributions and 417 donors, based on FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not an association PAC total and not the $34,870,820 all-cycle occupation total.

Is Realtor the National Association of Realtors?

No. This bucket is the self-reported occupation/employer string Realtor on individual contribution records. A trade association’s committee filings are a different FEC form stream. The join does not equate the occupation word with any membership organization. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Why so many contributions relative to the dollar total?

1,918 gifts totaling $1,992,036 imply an average of about $1,039 per contribution. That pattern is many itemized receipts rather than a few very large ones. 417 donors produced those gifts; the average per donor is about $4,777.

Does this money connect to federal housing spending?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This relationship page does not merge the two and does not claim donations funded awards. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.