Businessman occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Businessman as occupation, 2012 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string BUSINESSMAN. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $3,166,916, built from 1,773 contributions and 791 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Fewer than 800 donor IDs produced $3.2 million in 2012. Mean dollars per donor sit above high-count professional labels. About 9% of the occupation stack in a presidential year is a chapter, not the full book.

Average contribution is about $1,786; average per donor is about $4,004. Those means are arithmetic on the 2012 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. About 2.2 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio, not a headcount of unique humans behind every spelling variant.

BUSINESSMAN is not BUSINESS OWNER

BUSINESSMAN is the occupation string as typed, including the gendered form on the form. BUSINESS OWNER is a different two-word key. The FEC does not recode one into the other. Entity filings are not verified.

$34,277,492 is every cycle combined for BUSINESSMAN. $3,166,916 in 2012 is about 9.2% of that stack. Other windows hold about 90.8% ($31,110,576). A cycle cell at 9.2% is a chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history. BUSINESS OWNER, OWNER, and ENTREPRENEUR are other occupation pages if stored separately. Combining them without naming each source total mixes keys.

791 donors and 1,773 gifts in 2012

791 unique donors against 1,773 contributions implies some repeat giving inside the 2012 window. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. One person can appear more than once if addresses or names vary. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $3,166,916.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode BUSINESSMAN into a NAICS industry or a licensing roster. Recipients of the campaign gifts live on the occupation hub and the 2012 cycle hub.

About 9.2% of a $34.3 million occupation stack

9.2% is $3,166,916 divided by $34,277,492. Reading only 2012 understates the parent occupation book. Reading only the parent hides that this cycle’s share is 9.2%. The leftover outside 2012 is $31,110,576. Those other-cycle dollars are not itemized on this relationship page.

Presidential-year and midterm windows are different FEC two-year clocks. This page cites cycle 2012 only. A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $34,277,492 is shared.

What a Businessman–2012 join cannot claim

This page does not identify firms and does not convert occupation text into a corporate contribution. It does not treat the label as a complete small-business census.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Correlation between a job title and a cycle total is not causation. Cite $3,166,916, 1,773 contributions, and 791 donors for Businessman in 2012. Cite $34,277,492 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov.

Related Businessman and 2012 tables

Businessman donations is the occupation hub behind $34,277,492. The 2012 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot. If a hub disagrees with $3,166,916, 1,773 gifts, or 791 donor IDs, the hub and FEC.gov control.

Keep the occupation string BUSINESSMAN attached to $3,166,916 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2012. Keep 1,773 contributions and 791 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Businessman in 2012 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. The all-cycle occupation total $34,277,492 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Businessman-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Businessman grouping’s 2012 cell is $3,166,916 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,773 contributions and 791 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $34,277,492 all-cycle occupation total.

Is Business Owner included in this total?

No. This cell is the self-reported string BUSINESSMAN matched to cycle 2012. BUSINESS OWNER, OWNER, and ENTREPRENEUR are other keys if stored separately. The FEC does not verify that the title matches a license or payroll. See the Businessman occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

What share of this occupation’s FEC money fell in 2012?

About 9.2%. $3,166,916 divided by $34,277,492 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 90.8% ($31,110,576) on the occupation hub. See the Businessman occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

Does this count registered businesses?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $3,166,916 is itemized receipts tagged BUSINESSMAN in 2012, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts never enter this cell. FEC.gov is the source.