RET
Total Donated
$2,515,339
Contributions
9,267
Unique Donors
277
Top Employer
RET
Filers who entered RET. — a truncated occupation or employer string on federal campaign reports — account for $4,418,618 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. LobbyVault counts 9,918 contributions and 698 donors. Mean gift size is about $446; mean per donor is about $6,330. The abbreviation is almost certainly “retired” truncated by a form or a treasurer, but the Commission stores the characters as typed. It is not a NAICS code and not a merge of every RETIRED spelling.
Key figures
- RET. FEC strings sum to $4,418,618.
- 9,918 contributions came from 698 donors.
- About $446 per gift and $6,330 per donor on a simple mean.
- RETIRED and other spellings are not merged into this total.
- The abbreviation is FEC free text, not NAICS.
Four characters, $4,418,618
Six hundred ninety-eight unique donors produced 9,918 contributions, about 14 itemized gifts per person—lower frequency than payroll-heavy employer strings. $4,418,618 ÷ 698 ≈ $6,330 per donor. RET. with a period is a different key from RET, RETIRED, and Retiree if ingest kept them separate. This page’s dollars belong to RET. only. Top employer matches RET.
Treasurers often abbreviate occupation to fit older paper schedules. The public record keeps the abbreviation. LobbyVault does not expand RET. into RETIRED on this industry page.
Do not combine with other retired strings
A full RETIRED industry page, if it exists, is a different slug with its own total. Adding that unknown total to $4,418,618 would invent a combined retiree figure the packet does not contain. Neighboring homemaker and AT HOME strings are likewise separate.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Occupation breakdowns may list retired and related titles under the occupation index.
Full analysis: RET. money in federal elections →
Questions
- What does RET. mean on FEC filings?
- RET. is the literal employer/occupation string on the filings in this cluster. It is commonly a truncation of retired, but LobbyVault does not recode it. The cluster totals $4,418,618 from 9,918 contributions and 698 donors. Full RETIRED spellings are other keys if stored separately.
- How much have RET.-labeled filers given federally?
- The RET. industry cluster totals $4,418,618 in itemized FEC contributions, from 9,918 contributions and 698 donors. The figure is that abbreviation only, not a NAICS code and not every retiree on FEC.gov. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
- Should I add this to a RETIRED industry total?
- No. The packets do not identify overlap between RET. and other retired spellings. Adding unknown totals would double-count an unknown share. Treat RET. as its own $4,418,618 cluster. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
- How many unique RET. donors are there?
- LobbyVault counts 698 donors and 9,918 contributions. Unique-donor count is matching disclosure text, not a count of retired Americans. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.