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TEACHER

Total Donated

$92,518,340

Contributions

831,593

Unique Donors

18,758

Donors who listed TEACHER as occupation posted $92,518,340 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. The money arrived in 831,593 contributions from 18,758 donor records. TEACHER is a high-frequency label with a small mean line size, distinct from PROFESSOR in the same extract. In compact form that dollar total is $92.5 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • TEACHER occupation itemizations sum to $92,518,340 from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donors.
  • Mean line size is about $111; repeat itemizing is about 44 contributions per donor record.
  • PROFESSOR is a separate occupation key in the same FEC extract.
  • The string is self-reported job text, not a credential or union-membership match.

High line count, small mean gift

831,593 itemizations against $92,518,340 implies about $111 per contribution, the lowest mean among the occupation keys in this harvest. 18,758 donor records imply about $4,932 per donor and about 44 contributions per donor record. The shape is many repeated modest itemizations.

A 44-to-1 itemization ratio means TEACHER records reappear often across filings. That can reflect recurring small gifts that still clear the itemization threshold, gifts to many committees, or both. The packet does not split those cases.

Educator, instructor, and professor are other strings. This page is TEACHER only. Combining classroom titles would invent a total the bulk file does not publish.

Self-reporting across school levels

The FEC occupation box does not encode K-12 versus college, public versus private, or subject. A preschool teacher and a high-school teacher who both typed TEACHER share this key. A college faculty member who typed PROFESSOR is on the PROFESSOR page.

Best-efforts rules require committees to ask for occupation, not to verify a teaching credential. Retired teachers may still use the word. 18,758 is a contributor-record count, not a union membership file.

Full analysis: TEACHER occupation itemizations in FEC data →

Questions

How much have TEACHER donors given in FEC records?
Occupation TEACHER is attached to $92,518,340 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donor records. PROFESSOR is a separate string and is not included. 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.
Why are there so many teacher contributions?
831,593 itemizations from 18,758 donors implies about 44 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $111. The packet does not include a median. 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 TEACHER include professors?
Only if they typed TEACHER. Faculty who wrote PROFESSOR are on the PROFESSOR page. This total is the TEACHER match: $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, 18,758 donors. 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 union PAC spending?
No. These facts are contributor occupation totals on itemized receipts. Union committee spending is a different FEC filing category and is not in this packet. The matching contribution count is 831,593 and the matching donor-record count is 18,758. 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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