DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY

A wide credential pool under $5.9 million

$5,866,385 is the occupation-level dollar total. 21,990 is the itemization count. 1,912 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $267 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,068 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 12 itemizations per donor record. Twenty-one thousand-plus lines from 1,912 donor records is a wide medical-credential pool: more people than many specialty strings with similar dollars.

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 $267 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per donor record sit toward the modest side among professional-title strings in this extract. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions; this bucket is heavier on headcount than on dollars per person.

Doctor of optometry is not optometrist and not a board list

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds an active optometry license. Retired ODs and people using the credential phrase loosely can all appear. OPTOMETRIST is a different occupation page with its own facts.

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 DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY after indexing. OPTOMETRIST, OD, and OPHTHALMOLOGIST remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY.

Questions

How much have doctor of optometry donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY sum to $5,866,385 across 21,990 contributions and 1,912 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 OPTOMETRIST included in this total?

No. OPTOMETRIST is a separate occupation string. This page covers DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY only: $5,866,385, 21,990 contributions, and 1,912 donors. Combining the two without naming both keys changes the unit. 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 the FEC confirm optometry licenses?

No. Occupation is self-reported. Treat the 1,912 donor records as a count of matching text, not a board roster. The indexed sum remains $5,866,385 on 21,990 lines. 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.

Are ophthalmologists included?

No. OPHTHALMOLOGIST is a different specialty string. This page is $5,866,385 for DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY only. Mixing eye-care titles would invent a combined total the packet does not contain. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.