Agent occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

The Agent and 2008 join

AGENT plus cycle 2008 equals $626,823. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Insurance Agent, Real Estate Agent, and Talent Agent are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a producer-license file or a talent-agency franchise roll. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the occupation total $11,103,127 and the remainder $10,476,304.

Parent hubs: Agent donations at /occupations/agent/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $626,823 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell. Agent-coded money in 2010 is a later midterm cell. $626,823 is 2008.

What the AGENT string covers

$11,103,127 belongs to the exact string AGENT across harvested cycles. It is not a producer-license file or a talent-agency franchise roll. People who wrote nearby wording — Insurance Agent, Real Estate Agent, and Talent Agent — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 5.6% of that title bucket.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $626,823. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $11,103,127. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Agent donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell.

Itemized lines, donor keys, and 2008

459 donors and 862 receipts — about 1.9 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $727; mean per donor about $1,366. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. No median is published in this packet.

Neither 459 nor 862 is a census of every agent who donated. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $626,823. Insurance Agent, Real Estate Agent, and Talent Agent are other keys when those words appear.

Correlation is not causation for Agent in 2008

Cite $626,823 as Agent in 2008. Cite $11,103,127 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add an insurance PAC or a realtor PAC to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $626,823 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 5.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode AGENT into a producer-license file or a talent-agency franchise roll. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. A presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

Quoting $626,823 without mixing tables

A clean footnote names occupation AGENT, election cycle 2008, $626,823 in itemized individual contributions, 862 receipts, and 459 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $727 per line and $1,366 per donor in the cell. If the live Agent donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 862 as unique workers in the trade.

Repeat the four numbers together: $626,823 in the 2008 cycle, 862 contributions, 459 donors, and 5.6% of $11,103,127. That sentence is the join. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 1.9. That ratio is 862 divided by 459, not a measure of turnout.

Insurance Agent and other neighboring keys

Insurance Agent, Real Estate Agent, and Talent Agent are neighboring strings, not parents of this cell. Opening those occupation hubs and adding their dollars to $11,103,127 would mix keys. All occupations is the index for those other strings. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pages, including other years for Agent when those files exist.

Do not rank Agent against other occupations from this packet. The packet has one occupation total and one cycle cell. Rankings would require other occupation totals that are not facts here. Stop at $626,823 tagged Agent in 2008.

Questions

What is the Agent × 2008 dollar total?

The join records $626,823 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Agent in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 862 contributions and 459 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $11,103,127, so 2008 is 5.6% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Agent the same as Insurance Agent?

No. This cell is the exact string AGENT. Insurance Agent, Real Estate Agent, and Talent Agent are other keys when those words appear. Combining those keys with $11,103,127 would be a recode. The 2008 overlap remains $626,823 on 862 lines from 459 donors, source FEC.gov.

Did Agent donations pay for federal awards in 2008?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending.gov awards are different datasets. This page does not claim that $626,823 tagged Agent in 2008 funded contracts or grants. The cell is 862 itemized receipts from 459 donors, 5.6% of $11,103,127. Quote the occupation-cycle join only. Source FEC.gov.

Where are the live Agent and 2008 tables?

Agent donations carries the $11,103,127 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Agent beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Agent × 2008 intersection only.