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SALES

Total Donated

$70,603,695

Contributions

384,165

Unique Donors

16,747

Donors who listed SALES as occupation account for $70,603,695 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those dollars arrived in 384,165 contributions from 16,747 donor records. SALES is a function word, not a product category; it does not say whether the donor sells software, insurance, or industrial equipment. In compact form that dollar total is $70.6 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • SALES occupation itemizations sum to $70,603,695 from 384,165 contributions and 16,747 donors.
  • Mean line size is about $184; repeat itemizing is about 23 contributions per donor record.
  • The word is a job function, not a product or NAICS category.
  • Industry pages are a separate filter and will not equal this occupation total.

High frequency, modest dollars per line

384,165 itemizations against $70,603,695 implies about $184 per contribution. 16,747 donor records imply about $4,216 per donor and about 23 contributions per donor record. The shape matches other high-repeat professional labels more than dollar-heavy investor titles.

Sales manager, salesperson, and account executive are other strings if that is what the donor wrote. This page is the SALES match: $70,603,695, 384,165 contributions, 16,747 donors.

A 23-to-1 itemization ratio means many SALES records reappear across filings. The packet does not split recurring gifts from multi-committee giving.

Occupation is not industry

Industry pages group employer categories. A sales employee at a bank and a sales employee at a manufacturer can share this occupation string and split across industries. Adding occupation and industry totals double-counts overlapping rows.

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. There is no commission-statement verification. Retired salespeople may still type SALES.

Full analysis: SALES occupation itemizations in FEC bulk data →

Questions

How much have SALES-occupation donors given?
Occupation SALES is attached to $70,603,695 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 384,165 contributions and 16,747 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a sector revenue figure. 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.
Does SALES tell me what the donor sells?
No. Occupation is free text. Product and employer, when present, are other fields. This page’s $70,603,695 does not encode industry. The matching contribution count is 384,165 and the matching donor-record count is 16,747. 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 are there so many sales itemizations?
384,165 contributions from 16,747 donors implies about 23 itemizations per donor record. Repeat giving raises the line count. Mean line size is about $184. 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 this the same as sales-industry giving?
No. This overlay filters the occupation column. Industry pages use employer categories. The two cuts should not be added. The matching contribution count is 384,165 and the matching donor-record count is 16,747. 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.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

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