Accountant donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Accountant receipts inside 2014

The join is mechanical: occupation field equals ACCOUNTANT, and the contribution falls in the 2014 cycle. The overlapping dollars are $1,935,537. LobbyVault does not test whether the filer held a CPA license or worked at a public accounting firm.

5.1% of the occupation total landed in this midterm cell. That percentage uses only the two dollar fields in this packet. It is not Accountant’s share of all 2014 itemized giving, a figure this packet does not contain.

The occupation hub for Accountant lists $37.8 million ($37,845,841) under the exact string ACCOUNTANT. The 2014 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2014, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Accountant in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.9 million. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

ACCOUNTANT as a harvested key

The occupation hub sums to $37.8 million ($37,845,841) for this exact label. Certified public accountant, tax accountant, and staff accountant split elsewhere if typed that way. Merging those keys would invent a total this extract does not support.

Accounting work also appears under employer names rather than occupation. Employer is not a fact on this packet. The Accountant donations page is the occupation rollup; this page is the 2014 slice.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,935,537. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $37,845,841. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Accountant donations and the live 2014 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Volume in the 2014 cell

2,184 contributions from 1,052 donors is about 2.1 receipts per donor. Mean gift about $886; mean per donor about $1,840. A midterm file can still include presidential committees winding down and early money for the next cycle — this packet does not date-stamp lines inside the cycle.

More than two thousand receipts is enough that sorting the live hub by amount is more informative than quoting the mean. The 2014 election cycle page shows other occupations filing the same cycle; this row stays Accountant.

2,184 is a receipt count. 1,052 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.9 million.

Using the share without over-reading it

$1,935,537 divided by $37,845,841 is 5.1%. That is the 2014 share of the harvested Accountant string, not a growth rate and not a rank among professions. Other cycle amounts are not listed here, so this page does not chart a time series.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations and All FEC ties are the indexes for sibling keys and sibling joins.

Dividing $1,935,537 by 2,184 receipts yields about $886 per line. Dividing by 1,052 donors yields about $1,840 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Caveats on a licensed-sounding title

Accountant on a form is not a license check. People outside the profession who typed the word are in $1.9 million; licensed CPAs who typed another title are out. The disclosure system records strings.

No claim that accounting firms directed this money, and no party split. 1,052 is a donor count in the cell, not a headcount of U.S. accountants.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode ACCOUNTANT into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did accountants contribute in 2014?

Filers who listed Accountant itemized $1,935,537 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, across 2,184 receipts from 1,052 donors. The cell is 5.1% of $37,845,841 under that exact occupation string. CPA and bookkeeper are counted separately when those are the words on the form.

What does an occupation-by-cycle page measure?

It measures one self-reported occupation key inside one FEC cycle. For Accountant, the cycle dollars are $1.9 million and the occupation rollup is $37.8 million. The page explains that overlap. It does not restated either hub in full and does not assign motives to 1,052 donors.

Are Accountant and CPA the same FEC occupation?

Only if the form used the same characters. This join is the ACCOUNTANT key. Certified Public Accountant is a different string when entered that way. LobbyVault does not recode titles into a single accounting profession. Cite $1,935,537 for this key in 2014 only.

Does this 2014 total include accounting-firm PACs?

No. $1,935,537 is individual contributions with occupation Accountant. Committee independent expenditures and partnership PACs are outside this cell. Party shares are not in the packet. Use the occupation hub or the 2014 cycle hub for committee names. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Accountant in 2014 is $1,935,537 on 2,184 receipts from 1,052 donors.