RETAIL

A sector word used as a job title under $5.0M

$5,030,135 is the occupation-level dollar total. 41,084 is the itemization count. 1,213 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $122 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,147 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 34 itemizations per donor record.

41,084 lines from 1,213 records is a high-repeat pattern for a one-word label. The per-line mean of about $122 is modest: dollars accumulated in many schedules. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split.

RETAIL as occupation is not the same unit as a retail industry page. People who typed RETAIL may be clerks, owners, buyers, or anyone who used the sector word as a job description. The occupation column does not say which.

Retail is not retail owner and not store manager

RETAIL OWNER, STORE MANAGER, and RETAILER — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to RETAIL. This page cites only $5,030,135, 41,084 contributions, and 1,213 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no NAICS check on the occupation field. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals RETAIL after indexing. SALES remains another occupation page unless it normalized here.

Questions

How much have RETAIL occupation donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list RETAIL as occupation sum to $5,030,135, or $5.0M, across 41,084 contributions and 1,213 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. RETAIL is a one-word occupation string, not an industry total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is this the same as retail industry spending?

No. Industry pages group employers. This page covers occupation equals RETAIL: $5,030,135, 41,084 contributions, and 1,213 donors. Adding the two would double-count overlapping itemizations. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Does RETAIL mean store owner or clerk?

The FEC record does not say. RETAIL is one-word free text. Treat the 1,213 donor records as a count of matching text, not a job-classification roster. The indexed sum remains $5,030,135. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Where do I review individual RETAIL occupation gifts?

The RETAIL occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,030,135. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.