Business Executive political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

Business Executive and the 2012 cycle as two FEC filters

Occupation BUSINESS EXECUTIVE and cycle 2012 produce $2,220,476, 1,133 contributions, and 542 donors. The occupation nationwide across cycles is $13,233,638. Dollar share for 2012 is 16.8%. 1,133 contributions from 542 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. Contribution count is not a headcount of people who hold the job.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE is a two-word title. EXECUTIVE without the modifier is a different occupation. The join does not verify C-suite status or employer. LobbyVault does not recode CEO into this string. The 2012 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a presidential-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2010 or 2014 dollars into the 2012 total. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $2,220,476.

16.8% of $13,233,638 is $2,220,476. That arithmetic uses only the occupation total and the cycle total in this packet. It is not a forecast and not a party split. Recipient committees may be anywhere; cycle is the FEC even-year window, not the donor’s state.

Business Executive as an occupation string

Business Executive donations is the occupation hub: $13,233,638 across cycles from filers who typed BUSINESS EXECUTIVE. Sibling strings (EXECUTIVE, CEO, and BUSINESS OWNER) are not merged here. The occupation total is not an officer census, a business-PAC total, or a merge with EXECUTIVE.

The 2012 cycle filter on Business Executive receipts

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Business Executive. $2,220,476 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

1,133 contributions from 542 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,220,476, 1,133, and 542 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,220,476. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,220,476. Three numbers define the Business Executive × 2012 cell: dollars $2,220,476, contribution rows 1,133, unique donors 542. Share of occupation dollars is 16.8% of $13,233,638.

What the Business Executive–2012 join is not

Matching Business Executive with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Business Executive donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an officer census, a business-PAC total, or a merge with EXECUTIVE.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE is a two-word title. EXECUTIVE without the modifier is a different occupation. The join does not verify C-suite status or employer. LobbyVault does not recode CEO into this string. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Business Executive donations hub is $13,233,638; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Business Executive and 2012 pages

Business Executive donations holds the $13,233,638 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Business Executive. All occupations places BUSINESS EXECUTIVE beside other titles without merging sibling strings (EXECUTIVE, CEO, and BUSINESS OWNER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,220,476 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Business Executive dollars ($13,233,638). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,220,476, 1,133 contributions, 542 donors, 16.8% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Business Executive donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Business Executive 2012 as a dollar-share slice

2012 holds 16.8% of all-cycle Business Executive dollars ($2,220,476 of $13,233,638). That is a material cycle share, still a minority of the occupation total. $2.2 million is the same fact as $2,220,476 rounded to one decimal million, not a second extract. Do not add EXECUTIVE dollars into $2,220,476.

Researchers who need employer text or recipient committees should leave this join and open the Business Executive donations table. The 2012 cycle page is the even-year inventory. FEC.gov remains the controlling filing if extracts diverge.

Questions

How much did Business Executive donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS EXECUTIVE in the 2012 cycle total $2,220,476, from 1,133 contributions and 542 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Business Executive-coded receipts are $13,233,638. 2012 is 16.8% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Business Executive 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,220,476 or in the $13,233,638 occupation figure used here. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE and EXECUTIVE are different occupation strings and different pages. The 2012 join is $2,220,476 from 1,133 contributions and 542 donors.

Is Business Executive the same as Executive?

No. BUSINESS EXECUTIVE and EXECUTIVE are different occupation strings and different pages. The 2012 cycle filter on Business Executive is $2,220,476, 1,133 contributions, and 542 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $13,233,638. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 1,133 Business Executive contributions and 542 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 1,133 itemized contributions from 542 donors totaling $2,220,476. 1,133 contributions from 542 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.