BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE

High-frequency receipts under $5.6 million

$5,630,964 is the occupation-level dollar total. 46,235 is the itemization count. 1,479 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $122 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,807 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 31 itemizations per donor record. Forty-six thousand-plus lines from 1,479 donor records is a high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a modest mean dollars per line.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $122 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

That shape often fits repeat itemization, including PAC-related receipts, but this packet has no channel split. This guide does not assign percentages to those mechanisms.

Union title and sales title share the same words

BUSINESS AGENT, UNION REPRESENTATIVE, and BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. A donor who files BUSINESS AGENT in one cycle and BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE in another is split.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE after indexing. BUSINESS AGENT, UNION REPRESENTATIVE, and REPRESENTATIVE remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE.

Questions

How much have business representative donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE sum to $5,630,964 across 46,235 contributions and 1,479 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does business representative mean a union job?

Not from the occupation field alone. The same two words appear in labor and sales contexts. BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE still sums to $5,630,964 from 46,235 contributions and 1,479 donor records. Check employer on individual rows for workplace context. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Why are there 46,235 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,479 donor records add rows. About 31 lines per record and about $122 per contribution are means on $5,630,964. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Is business agent included?

Only if the occupation field equals BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE. BUSINESS AGENT is a different key. This page is $5,630,964, 46,235 lines, and 1,479 donors. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.