Consultant contributions in the 2008 FEC cycle

Consultant occupation string crossed with 2008

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Consultant and 2008 — sum to $5,978,423. The cell holds 6,176 itemized contributions and 1,771 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Consultant hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Consultant is a one-word title. Strategy, IT, and political consulting can share the four syllables on a form. CONSULTING, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, and named firm strings remain other keys if stored separately. Open Consultant 2008 for the overlay rows, Consultant for other cycles, and the 2008 election cycle for other employer strings.

Dividing $5,978,423 by 6,176 contributions yields about $968.01 per itemized gift. Dividing by 1,771 donors yields about $3,375.73 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical salary.

The 2008 Consultant cell versus the lifetime bucket

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $91,820,178. The 2008 slice of $5,978,423 is about 6.51% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.49%. Treating 2008 as the entire Consultant FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $91,820,178 as the denominator for the 6.51% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $91,820,178.

Repeat gifts on a one-word consulting title

1,771 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Consultant 2008 holds the rows. This JSON file does not invent donor names.

2008 is a presidential two-year FEC window. Gifts from both years of that window sit in the $5,978,423 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. The overlay is where dates become visible. Unitemized gifts never enter $5,978,423.

Consultant is not a vendor census

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $5,978,423. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a NAICS professional-services total and not a consulting PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 1,771 donors, and 6,176 contributions. CONSULTING, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, and named firm strings remain other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Consultant × 2008

Start with $5,978,423, then Consultant 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Consultant, 2008, $5,978,423, 6,176 contributions, 1,771 donors, 6.51% of $91,820,178, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string. Do not invent donor names. The packet counts 1,771 contributor identities and 6,176 Schedule A lines, not a payroll.

The 6.51% share, the 1,771-donor count, and the $968.01 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. 2008 remains a two-year FEC tag. $5,978,423 is the Consultant × 2008 cell only.

Consultant hub and the 2008 cycle page

The Consultant hub holds other cycles on the same string. The 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer and occupation keys from the same window. All FEC ties lists sibling joins. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control. Federal awards that share a calendar year with these gifts remain a different dataset.

Questions

How much did Consultant donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $5,978,423 in itemized individual contributions for the Consultant grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 6,176 contributions and 1,771 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $91,820,178 all-cycle figure.

What share of Consultant FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $91,820,178. The 2008 cell of $5,978,423 is about 6.51% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.49% on the industry hub. Do not treat 2008 as the whole Consultant story.

Does Consultant mean political consultant?

Not necessarily. FEC.gov stores the word as typed. Management, IT, and other consulting uses can share the string. This join does not split them. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Consultant hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Consultant 2008 join?

Open Consultant 2008 for the cycle overlay, Consultant for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON names the join; the overlay holds the rows.