Contractor occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Joining CONTRACTOR to the 2008 cycle

Contractor in 2008 is $3,314,400 on 3,096 itemized lines from 1,660 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2008 holds 10.9% of all-cycle Contractor dollars ($3,314,400 of $30,356,058). That is a material cycle share, still a minority of the occupation total. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

3,096 contributions from 1,660 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 1,660 people still used that title after 2008.

This page is not a restatement of the Contractor hub or of the 2008 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $3,314,400.

Reading CONTRACTOR without merging sibling titles

Filers who typed contractor produced the all-cycle occupation total of $30,356,058. CONTRACTOR is a one-word title that can mean construction, defense, or independent work. GENERAL CONTRACTOR and BUILDER are other keys if typed that way. The 2008 join does not map donors to licenses or NAICS construction codes. The occupation is not a construction-payroll census, a licensed-contractor file, or a builder PAC.

Reading 2008 without treating it as all Contractor money

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Contractor. $3,314,400 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

3,096 contributions from 1,660 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $1,071; mean per donor about $1,997. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $3,314,400. Three numbers define the Contractor × 2008 cell: dollars $3,314,400, contribution rows 3,096, unique donors 1,660. Share of occupation dollars is 10.9% of $30,356,058.

How not to read Contractor money in 2008

Matching Contractor with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Contractor donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a construction-payroll census, a licensed-contractor file, or a builder PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CONTRACTOR is a one-word title that can mean construction, defense, or independent work. GENERAL CONTRACTOR and BUILDER are other keys if typed that way. The 2008 join does not map donors to licenses or NAICS construction codes. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $3,314,400 funded USAspending obligations.

Linked Contractor and 2008 tables

Contractor donations holds the $30,356,058 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Contractor. All occupations places CONTRACTOR beside other titles without merging sibling strings (GENERAL CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION, and BUILDER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $3,314,400 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Contractor dollars ($30,356,058). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $3,314,400, 3,096 contributions, 1,660 donors, 10.9% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Using the Contractor 2008 figures in a citation

A usable sentence names both sides: occupation CONTRACTOR, cycle 2008, $3,314,400 itemized, 3,096 contributions, 1,660 donors, source FEC.gov. $3.3 million is a rounded form of $3,314,400.

Do not cite $30,356,058 as the 2008 figure. $30,356,058 is all-cycle Contractor. Do not cite a cycle-wide total from this page; $3,314,400 is Contractor only.

Questions

How much did Contractor-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Contractor grouping’s 2008 cell is $3,314,400 in itemized individual contributions, from 3,096 contributions and 1,660 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $30,356,058 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Contractor mean a licensed builder?

Not necessarily. CONTRACTOR is the occupation string as typed. FEC aggregates do not encode construction licenses. The 2008 cycle filter on Contractor is $3,314,400, 3,096 contributions, and 1,660 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $30,356,058. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Contractor FEC money fell in 2008?

About 10.9%. $3,314,400 divided by $30,356,058 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 89.1% ($27,041,658) on the occupation hub. See the Contractor occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Contractor 2008 money fund federal awards?

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. $3,314,400 is itemized receipts tagged CONTRACTOR in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.