Consulting occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Why $691,652 is a join

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string CONSULTING, cycle 2012. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $691,652, from 695 contributions and 315 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a one-word occupation/industry string, not a consulting-firm census. Self-reported occupation fields are free text. Filers who wrote a longer title or a nearby word are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets.

$691,652 is smaller than $6,916,859 because other cycles exist, and it is not a share of national 2012 giving because this packet has no cycle-wide denominator. The join is the point.

Form text, not a license file

The Commission stores occupation as typed. CONSULTING survived grouping as Consulting. That is not a census of practitioners. 315 unique donors in 2012 matched this string.

See the Consulting occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings. This tie keeps both filters on. The 10.0% ratio is $691,652 divided by $6,916,859. Other even-year joins for CONSULTING are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $6,225,207. Citing 2012 as if it were the Consulting lifetime total would overstate this cell by $6,225,207.

How 315 donors produced 695 gifts

315 donors and 695 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 2.2 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$2,196 per donor and $995 per line are derived from $691,652. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. A mean of $995 per itemized line and $2,196 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 695 contributions remaining larger than 315 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

Where $6,225,207 still sits

After this 2012 cell of $691,652, $6,225,207 of the Consulting grouping remains in other even-year windows. That remainder is 90.0% of $6,916,859. The 2012 page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No national 2012 total is supplied, so no share of the election claim is possible. 10.0% is Consulting-internal. FEC cycle 2012 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $691,652 if they were itemized against CONSULTING. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

What the Commission does not verify

FEC occupation fields are typed by filers. CONSULTING is stored as written. The Commission does not verify licenses, current jobs, or professional status on this aggregate. Consulting here is a one-word occupation/industry string, not a consulting-firm census.

PAC filings, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other tables. USAspending obligations are another database entirely. $691,652 does not fund federal awards. Consulting as a one-word occupation/industry string, not a consulting-firm census can appear in licensing or contracting databases under similar names. Those tables are not this $691,652. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards.

Keeping Consulting 2012 distinct from the hubs

Consulting without 2012 is $6,916,859. 2012 without Consulting is the year hub. Consulting with 2012 is $691,652. Mixing those three sentences is the usual citation error this page exists to prevent.

Internal links: Consulting donations, 2012 election cycle, All occupations, All FEC ties. Anchors stay as supplied in the packet. Quote both keys: Consulting and 2012. Quote the dollars: $691,652. Quote the volume: 695 contributions, 315 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them. Restating the join without new numbers: Consulting in 2012 is $691,652 from 695 itemized individual contributions and 315 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $6,916,859 across cycles, so 2012 is about 10.0% and other windows hold $6,225,207 (90.0%). The grouping is a one-word occupation/industry string, not a consulting-firm census, not CONSULTANT as a neighboring key, a lobbying-disclosure roll-up, or a named-firm page. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $995; mean per donor about $2,196; about 2.2 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $691,652.

Questions

How much did Consulting-labeled donors give in 2012?

Donors who listed Consulting reported $691,652 in the 2012 cycle on this aggregate — 695 contributions, 315 donors. The figure is not $6,916,859 and is not a named-recipient list. FEC.gov is the source for $691,652, 695 contributions, and 315 donors in the Consulting × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,916,859.

What share of Consulting FEC money fell in 2012?

10.0% of $6,916,859 is tagged 2012 ($691,652). That ratio uses only packet facts for CONSULTING. It is not a share of all 2012 FEC receipts. FEC.gov is the source for $691,652, 695 contributions, and 315 donors in the Consulting × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,916,859.

Is Consulting the same key as Consultant?

The label is not NAICS and not a census. It is a one-word occupation/industry string, not a consulting-firm census. 2012 money for this exact string is $691,652. CONSULTANT, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, and POLITICAL CONSULTANT remain other keys. FEC.gov is the source for $691,652, 695 contributions, and 315 donors in the Consulting × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,916,859.

Where is the overlay for Consulting in 2012?

Consulting donations is every cycle for the string. 2012 election cycle is every grouping that year. All occupations lists other titles. All FEC ties lists other intersections. Packet total $691,652. FEC.gov is the source for $691,652, 695 contributions, and 315 donors in the Consulting × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,916,859.