Consulting occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Consulting as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation CONSULTING and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $523,587, 586 contributions, and 280 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Consultant, management consulting, and management consultant are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a McKinsey-style headcount, a consultancy PAC, or a NAICS 5416 census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Consulting donations at /occupations/consulting/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $523,587 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Consulting in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $523,587. Strategy versus IT versus independent consulting is unpublished for Consulting in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale industry-word cell, not a named-firm roster.

CONSULTING as an industry word, not Consultant

$6.9 million ($6,916,859) belongs to the exact string CONSULTING across harvested cycles. It is not a McKinsey-style headcount, a consultancy PAC, or a NAICS 5416 census. People who wrote nearby wording — consultant, management consulting, and management consultant — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 7.6% of that title bucket ($523,587 of $6,916,859). Share of CONSULTING is not share of all 2008 receipts. The remainder, $6,393,272, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $523,587. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $6,916,859. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Consulting donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $523,587.

280 consulting donors and 586 receipts in 2008

280 donors and 586 receipts — about 2.1 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $893; mean per donor about $1,870. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale industry-word cell, not a named-firm roster. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 586 is a line count, not 280 one-time gifts. Strategy versus IT versus independent consulting is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by CONSULTING. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $523,587. Consultant as a person-title is a different occupation key. Combining the two would be a researcher merge.

Industry gerund versus firm PACs

Cite $523,587 as Consulting in 2008. Cite $6,916,859 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add consulting-firm PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $523,587 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 7.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode CONSULTING 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. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Consulting money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation CONSULTING, election cycle 2008, $523,587 in itemized individual contributions, 586 receipts, and 280 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $893 per line and $1,870 per donor in the cell. If the live Consulting donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 586 as unique workers in the trade named by CONSULTING.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Consulting donations rolls every cycle into one CONSULTING running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Consulting × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 586 receipts and $523,587. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Consultant as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $6,393,272 outside 2008. Most of the $6,916,859 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Consultant as a person-title is a different occupation key. Combining the two would be a researcher merge. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.1. That ratio is 586 divided by 280, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Consulting filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Consulting itemized $523,587 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 586 receipts and 280 donors. That is 7.6% of $6,916,859 under CONSULTING. Consultant, management consulting, and management consultant are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include consulting-firm PACs?

No. $523,587 is individual contributions tagged Consulting in 2008. Consulting-firm PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $523,587 would blend FEC tables. See Consulting donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Consulting in 2008 is $523,587 on 586 receipts from 280 donors.

Are Consulting labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses CONSULTING. Consultant, management consulting, and management consultant are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a McKinsey-style headcount, a consultancy PAC, or a NAICS 5416 census. Cite $523,587 for this title in 2008 on 586 receipts from 280 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Consulting donations ($6.9 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $523,587 from 586 receipts and 280 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Consulting in 2008.