Communications occupation money in the 2012 cycle

Communications × 2012

COMMUNICATIONS plus cycle 2012 equals $317,126. 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 2012. Communications Director, Communications Manager, and Public Relations are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an FCC license file, a newsroom headcount, or a PR-firm census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $6,534,616.

Parent hubs: Communications donations and the 2012 election cycle. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $317,126 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Communications in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $317,126. COMMUNICATIONS is the typed title. Director versus specialist is unpublished. Public Relations is a different key when those are the words. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Donor names are absent and are not invented.

COMMUNICATIONS as typed, not a job census

$6,851,742 belongs to the exact string COMMUNICATIONS across harvested cycles. It is not an FCC license file, a newsroom headcount, or a PR-firm census. People who wrote nearby wording — Communications Director, Communications Manager, and Public Relations — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 4.6% of that title bucket. Share of COMMUNICATIONS is not share of all 2012 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $317,126. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $6,851,742. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Communications donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell.

412 Communications receipts in a presidential year

218 donors and 412 receipts — about 1.9 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $770; mean per donor about $1,455. 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.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 412 is a line count, not 218 one-time gifts. COMMUNICATIONS is the typed title. Director versus specialist is unpublished. Public Relations is a different key when those are the words. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by COMMUNICATIONS.

2012 as a presidential FEC window next to Communications

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on individual receipts, not a single calendar year of January filings only. Inside that window, this occupation cell is $317,126 from 412 contributions and 218 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle book remains $6,851,742.

Independent expenditures are omitted from $317,126. Adjacent pages for the 2012 election cycle, Communications donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, no percentage of national 2012 giving is claimed.

Self-reported Communications versus committee filings

Cite $317,126 as Communications in 2012. Cite $6,851,742 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add a professional association’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $317,126 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 4.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode COMMUNICATIONS into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to read Communications money in 2012

This join does not recode COMMUNICATIONS into an FCC license file, a newsroom headcount, or a PR-firm census. COMMUNICATIONS is the typed title. Director versus specialist is unpublished. Public Relations is a different key when those are the words. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried COMMUNICATIONS are outside $317,126. Independent expenditures are outside $317,126. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much did Communications filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Communications itemized $317,126 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 412 receipts and 218 donors. That is 4.6% of $6,851,742 under COMMUNICATIONS. Communications Director, Communications Manager, and Public Relations are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this count a professional association’s PAC spending?

No. $317,126 is individual contributions tagged Communications in 2012. Association committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $317,126 would blend FEC tables. See Communications donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Communications in 2012 is $317,126 on 412 receipts from 218 donors.

Are communications labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses COMMUNICATIONS. Communications Director, Communications Manager, and Public Relations are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an FCC license file, a newsroom headcount, or a PR-firm census. Cite $317,126 for this title in 2012 on 412 receipts from 218 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Communications donations ($6,851,742 for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $317,126 from 412 receipts and 218 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Communications in 2012.