INSTRUCTOR

High-frequency receipts on a one-word teaching label

$5,514,850 is the occupation-level dollar total. 46,555 is the itemization count. 1,277 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $118 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,319 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 36 itemizations per donor record. Forty-six thousand-plus lines from 1,277 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 $118 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 contribution sit toward the low side among occupation strings near this dollar band. This bucket is heavier on line count than on dollars per line.

Instructor is not professor and not teacher

The FEC does not verify teaching credentials. Flight instructors, fitness instructors, and college instructors can share this string if that is the occupation text. Ranked academic titles live on other pages.

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 INSTRUCTOR after indexing. TEACHER, PROFESSOR, and ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to INSTRUCTOR.

Questions

How much have instructor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list INSTRUCTOR sum to $5,514,850 across 46,555 contributions and 1,277 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.

Are professors included in the instructor total?

No. PROFESSOR is a different occupation key. This page covers INSTRUCTOR only: $5,514,850, 46,555 contributions, and 1,277 donors. Combining them would invent a combined academic total the packet does not contain. 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 46,555 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,277 donor records add rows. About 36 lines per record and about $118 per contribution are means on $5,514,850. 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.

Does the FEC verify teaching credentials?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. Treat the 1,277 donor records as matching text, not a licensing roster. The indexed sum remains $5,514,850. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.