EXECUTIVE

Fewer donors, larger mean amounts

41,411 donors is a smaller pool than several professional labels that sit nearby in dollar rank. Against $366,730,911, the mean per donor record is about $8,856. Against 499,782 itemizations, the mean per contribution is about $734. Those averages sit above high-volume occupations that post more gifts at lower amounts.

About 12 contributions per donor record is the file-wide repeat rate. That is enough to show many people are not one-time itemizers, and not enough to describe a typical executive’s giving calendar. The FEC extract does not publish a mode or median for this string.

EXECUTIVE overlaps in English with CEO, PRESIDENT, and DIRECTOR. In the database those are different keys. A donor who wrote EXECUTIVE is in this $366,730,911. A donor who wrote CEO is not, unless a separate gift used this exact occupation text.

Free text, not an org-chart rank

Companies use executive for a wide band of roles. The FEC occupation box does not encode salary band, equity, or whether the person sits on a board. Best-efforts collection means the committee asked; it does not mean a human resources file was checked.

Punctuation and extra words matter. Some filers write C-suite, senior executive, or executive vice president. Those strings, if they did not normalize to EXECUTIVE, live elsewhere. This page is the EXECUTIVE match only.

Questions

What is the FEC total for occupation EXECUTIVE?

Itemizations listing EXECUTIVE sum to $366,730,911 in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total covers 499,782 contributions and 41,411 donor records that used that occupation text. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Is EXECUTIVE the same as CEO in campaign-finance data?

No. Occupation is self-reported. EXECUTIVE, CEO, and C.E.O. are separate strings with separate totals. This page does not include gifts whose occupation field was CEO unless the text matched EXECUTIVE. The matching contribution count is 499,782 and the matching donor-record count is 41,411. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

Why is the average gift higher than for some professions?

With $366,730,911 on 499,782 itemizations, the mean is about $734 per contribution, and about $8,856 per donor record. Those are arithmetic means from this occupation bucket only. They are not a statement that executives always give larger checks.

Does the total include unitemized executive giving?

No. Occupation appears on itemized Form 3/3X schedules. Amounts that were never itemized are not in the $366,730,911 figure. The packet facts are itemized occupation totals only. The matching contribution count is 499,782 and the matching donor-record count is 41,411. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.