COMMUNICATIONS

Headline receipts on a one-word occupation

$6,851,742 is the occupation-level dollar total. 25,152 is the itemization count. 1,078 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $272 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $6,356 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 23 itemizations per donor record. Twenty-five thousand-plus lines from about a thousand donor records points to frequent itemization rather than a thin stack of large checks.

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 $272 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

A one-word occupation is a coarse bucket. Press staff, communications directors, consultants, and people who work in a communications division can all land here—or on longer strings that never join this total.

Why the COMMUNICATIONS label is noisy

Some donors write a function (communications); others write a rank (communications director) or a medium (public relations). FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. LobbyVault does not merge them.

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 COMMUNICATIONS after indexing. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, COMMS, and PUBLIC AFFAIRS remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to COMMUNICATIONS.

Questions

What is the FEC total for the communications occupation?

Itemizations that list COMMUNICATIONS sum to $6,851,742 across 25,152 contributions and 1,078 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.

Is communications a standardized FEC job code?

No. Occupation is free text. COMMUNICATIONS itemizations sum to $6,851,742 from 25,152 contributions and 1,078 donor records. There is no SOC code on the occupation field. Related titles with extra words are not included. 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.

Does this total include communications directors?

Only if the occupation field is exactly COMMUNICATIONS. A donor listed as communications director is a different key. This page is $6,851,742, 25,152 lines, and 1,078 donors for the one-word string. 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.

How do I see who received the money?

The COMMUNICATIONS occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Confirm any committee on FEC.gov. This packet does not include a recipient ranking. The occupation total remains $6,851,742. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.