Contractor occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Contractor as occupation, 2012 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string CONTRACTOR. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $2,920,622, built from 2,767 contributions and 1,443 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. About 10% of the occupation stack in a presidential year, on 1,443 donor IDs, is a mid-size chapter. Mean line size near a thousand dollars is volume arithmetic, not a typical contract invoice.

Average contribution is about $1,056; average per donor is about $2,024. Those means are arithmetic on the 2012 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio, not a headcount of unique humans behind every spelling variant.

CONTRACTOR is not a procurement vendor code

CONTRACTOR is the occupation string as typed. It can mean construction, independent contracting, or a government-vendor self-description. The FEC does not split those uses and does not match the word to a UEI or DUNS number.

$30,356,058 is every cycle combined for CONTRACTOR. $2,920,622 in 2012 is about 9.6% of that stack. Other windows hold about 90.4% ($27,435,436). A cycle cell at 9.6% is a chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history. CONSTRUCTION, BUILDER, and GENERAL CONTRACTOR are other occupation pages if stored separately. Combining them without naming each source total mixes keys.

1,443 donors and 2,767 gifts in 2012

1,443 unique donors against 2,767 contributions implies some repeat giving inside the 2012 window. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. One person can appear more than once if addresses or names vary. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $2,920,622.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode CONTRACTOR into a NAICS industry or a licensing roster. Recipients of the campaign gifts live on the occupation hub and the 2012 cycle hub.

About 9.6% of a $30.4 million occupation stack

9.6% is $2,920,622 divided by $30,356,058. Reading only 2012 understates the parent occupation book. Reading only the parent hides that this cycle’s share is 9.6%. The leftover outside 2012 is $27,435,436. Those other-cycle dollars are not itemized on this relationship page.

Presidential-year and midterm windows are different FEC two-year clocks. This page cites cycle 2012 only. A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $30,356,058 is shared.

What a Contractor–2012 join cannot claim

USAspending contractor awards are a different dataset. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded federal contracts. GENERAL CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, if used, sit in other hubs.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Correlation between a job title and a cycle total is not causation. Cite $2,920,622, 2,767 contributions, and 1,443 donors for Contractor in 2012. Cite $30,356,058 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov.

Related Contractor and 2012 tables

Contractor donations is the occupation hub behind $30,356,058. The 2012 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot. If a hub disagrees with $2,920,622, 2,767 gifts, or 1,443 donor IDs, the hub and FEC.gov control.

Keep the occupation string CONTRACTOR attached to $2,920,622 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2012. Keep 2,767 contributions and 1,443 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Contractor in 2012 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. The all-cycle occupation total $30,356,058 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Contractor-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Contractor grouping’s 2012 cell is $2,920,622 in itemized individual contributions, from 2,767 contributions and 1,443 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.

Is this a USAspending vendor total?

No. This cell is the self-reported string CONTRACTOR matched to cycle 2012. CONSTRUCTION, BUILDER, and GENERAL CONTRACTOR are other keys if stored separately. The FEC does not verify that the title matches a license or payroll. See the Contractor occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

What share of Contractor FEC money fell in 2012?

About 9.6%. $2,920,622 divided by $30,356,058 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 90.4% ($27,435,436) on the occupation hub. See the Contractor occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

Do these donations fund federal contracts?

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. $2,920,622 is itemized receipts tagged CONTRACTOR in 2012, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts never enter this cell. FEC.gov is the source.