How much did Atty-labeled donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,044,891 in itemized individual contributions for the Atty grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 881 contributions and 211 donors. The label is a self-reported abbreviation, not a bar census.

Are these 211 donors at one law firm?

No. Atty is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC text. The 211 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm.

What share of the Atty total is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $12,586,849. $1,044,891 divided by that figure is about 8.3%. Other cycles make up the remainder.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Atty 2012 for the table, Atty for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.

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Atty occupation filings and the 2012 FEC cycle

Filers who wrote Atty in the employer or occupation rollup reported $1,044,891 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 881 contributions from 211 donors. Atty is an abbreviated title bucket, not a census of licensed attorneys and not a bar-association PAC. This page joins that four-letter key to the 2012 two-year window so it is not confused with a longer Attorney grouping that may live on another page. Two hundred eleven donors who typed Atty are not a bar census and are not a named law-firm employer key. Leave named law-firm keys and any full-spelling Attorney key uncombined with these 211 donors.

Key figures

Atty × 2012 is $1,044,891 in itemized individual contributions.
The cell includes 881 contributions from 211 donors.
2012 is about 8.3% of the grouping’s $12,586,849 all-cycle total.
The key is an abbreviated title, not a law firm.
The join does not rank occupations or mix FEC gifts with federal awards.

Why Atty and 2012 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like abbreviations that appear often enough to form buckets. Atty is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2012 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $1,044,891 — a cell, not a verdict on lawyers as a class. Named-firm keys such as a specific law partnership are stored separately.

The same grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $12,586,849. The 2012 slice is about 8.3% of that stack. A presidential-year cell that is roughly one-twelfth of an abbreviation bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2012 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Atty filter.

What the four-letter title captures

Donors type titles. Some write attorney, some write lawyer, some write Atty. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy on this site. People who listed a law-firm name as employer land in employer groupings, not here. Mixing this page with a named firm join would double-count or mis-attribute dollars.

211 donors are contributor identities whose matched text fell in this grouping, not a sample of one city’s bar. A filer who listed both Atty and a firm name may still land in only one rollup on this site.

Treat $12,586,849 as the denominator for the 8.3% share. A longer Attorney key, if it exists, is a different page. This join reports only Atty in 2012.

881 contributions from 211 donors

Dividing $1,044,891 by 881 contributions yields about $1,186 per itemized gift. Dividing by 211 donors yields about $4,952 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.2. Those figures describe repeated giving in a mid-size occupation cell without identifying a median or a party split.

Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. 881 and 211 belong together. The overlay for Atty 2012 is the row view. Averages hide tails; the packet does not publish a distribution. About 4.2 lines per donor among 211 Atty-abbreviation identities is a lawyer-title pattern, not a named-firm headcount and not a full-spelling Attorney key.

2012 without a lawyer ranking

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Atty is one row in that matrix. Nothing in $1,044,891 ranks attorneys against executives or physicians. Comparisons require other joins, each with their own facts.

Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the occupation filter and Atty to drop the year. All FEC ties lists sibling relationship pages. None of them inherit the 211-donor count from this cell.

Caveats for an abbreviated title

Occupation fields are messy. Abbreviations, full spellings, and firm names fragment the same real-world jobs across keys. Itemization thresholds hide smaller gifts. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures sit outside $1,044,891.

Do not read the join as evidence that attorneys funded 2012. The records show a text match and a date window. Federal legal-services awards in USAspending are a different universe; FEC itemized gifts do not fund those awards by sharing a year.

Keeping 211 donors inside the Atty cell

Start with $1,044,891, then the overlay, then Atty or the 2012 election cycle if a dimension needs to drop. That path keeps two filters and one cell.

The 8.3% share versus $12,586,849, the 211-donor count, and the $1,186 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a named law-firm page and the arithmetic stops being a fact from this packet. Eight hundred eighty-one contributions at about $1,186 per gift and an 8.3 percent share of $12,586,849 describe the Atty abbreviation in 2012. Full spellings such as attorney, if stored as another key, stay on their own pages. Legal-services awards in USAspending are not funded by this cell.

Questions

How much did Atty-labeled donors give in 2012?: FEC.gov aggregates show $1,044,891 in itemized individual contributions for the Atty grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 881 contributions and 211 donors. The label is a self-reported abbreviation, not a bar census.
Are these 211 donors at one law firm?: No. Atty is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC text. The 211 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm.
What share of the Atty total is 2012?: The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $12,586,849. $1,044,891 divided by that figure is about 8.3%. Other cycles make up the remainder.
Where is the overlay for this join?: Open Atty 2012 for the table, Atty for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.