SELF CONSULTANT
Total Donated
$56,976
Contributions
254
Unique Donors
3
Top Employer
SELF CONSULTANT
Filers who listed self/consultant on federal itemized receipts account for $4.2M ($4,199,109) on FEC.gov. The cluster holds 7,744 contributions and 717 donors. The slash joins a self-employment marker and a function in one stored field. It is not a NAICS professional-services total and not a PAC.
Key figures
- self/consultant as FEC employer text totals $4.2M ($4,199,109) from 717 donors.
- 7,744 contribution lines sit under that slash hybrid string.
- CONSULTANT and SELF EMPLOYED are separate FEC keys.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or PAC total.
A slash hybrid, not a Census occupation
LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. self/consultant is the exact slash spelling as stored. The $4,199,109 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not SELF EMPLOYED, not CONSULTANT as a standalone title, and not a NAICS management-consulting category.
SELF, SELF-EMPLOYED, CONSULTANT, and SELF EMPLOYED CONSULTANT without this slash sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into self/consultant. The FEC field records what was typed, not a standardized BLS occupation.
717 donors and 7,744 lines
717 unique donors produced 7,744 self/consultant contribution lines totaling $4,199,109. That is on the order of 11 itemized receipts per donor and a mean gift near $542. Mean per donor is about $5,856. The packet does not publish a client-industry split or a mean gift as its own FEC field.
Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and committee PAC filings are outside the $4,199,109 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.
Full analysis: self/consultant money in federal elections →
Questions
- How much have self/consultant-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $4,199,109 to the self/consultant employer string, from 7,744 contributions and 717 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not a PAC and not a NAICS professional-services total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Is this the same as CONSULTANT or SELF EMPLOYED?
- No. CONSULTANT and SELF EMPLOYED are separate grouped strings. The $4.2M total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to self/consultant, including the slash. LobbyVault does not merge those variants into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault.
- Does this include FINANCIAL CONSULTANT filers?
- No. FINANCIAL CONSULTANT is a separate employer string. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text self/consultant. Staff who typed a client firm name sit in that firm row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- How many unique donors listed self/consultant?
- The rollup counts 717 donors and 7,744 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a Census count of consultants. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.