Contractor donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Contractor × 2014

CONTRACTOR plus cycle 2014 equals $1,713,154. General contractor, subcontractor, and independent contractor are other keys if those extra words appear. This join does not recode construction NAICS or SAM.gov vendor flags.

Parent hubs: Contractor donations and the 2014 election cycle. All FEC ties keeps this midterm cell on its own URL, separate from other even-year contractor joins.

The occupation hub for Contractor lists $30.4 million ($30,356,058) under the exact string CONTRACTOR. The 2014 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2014, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Contractor in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.7 million. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A word that spans trades and vendors

$30.4 million ($30,356,058) under CONTRACTOR is a mixed bucket because the word is used in several senses. This page does not split building trades from IT contractors. Employer would help; employer is not in this packet.

The 2014 slice is 5.6% of that mixed bucket. It is not construction’s share of 2014 giving and not a USAspending contractor total.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,713,154. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $30,356,058. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Contractor donations and the live 2014 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 $1,713,154. If a later harvest revises 1,682 or 872, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($30,356,058) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

2014 line counts

872 donors and 1,682 receipts — about 1.9 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,019; mean per donor about $1,965. An 872-donor midterm file can still hide large checks. No median.

Federal award recipients sometimes also appear as individual donors under this occupation word. That coincidence is not in the packet. This page does not join FEC receipts to USAspending awards.

1,682 is a receipt count. 872 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.7 million.

FEC receipts are not federal awards

Cite $1,713,154 as Contractor individual contributions in 2014. Cite $30,356,058 as the CONTRACTOR occupation total. Do not add either figure to USAspending obligations. Those are different datasets.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring trade titles.

Dividing $1,713,154 by 1,682 receipts yields about $1,019 per line. Dividing by 872 donors yields about $1,965 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a license or SAM census

Contractor does not mean a bonded builder or a registered federal vendor. It means the occupation box said CONTRACTOR. Filers who wrote builder or construction are outside $1.7 million.

No ranking of trades, no party split, no claim that donations bought contracts. 1,682 receipts and 872 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode CONTRACTOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did contractors donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Contractor itemized $1,713,154 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 1,682 receipts and 872 donors. That is 5.6% of $30,356,058 under CONTRACTOR. General contractor and independent contractor are other keys when those extra words appear on the form.

Does contractor here mean federal vendors?

Not necessarily. FEC.gov stored the occupation as typed. CONTRACTOR can mean building trades, a consultant, or a vendor self-description. This page does not match SAM.gov. $1.7 million is political money tagged Contractor in 2014, not award dollars.

Are these donations the same as USAspending awards?

No. $1,713,154 is FEC individual contributions. Federal obligations sit in a different dataset. This join does not claim that donations fund awards. Cite the FEC cell and stop. Employer and award IDs are not in this packet. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Contractor in 2014 is $1,713,154 on 1,682 receipts from 872 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Contractor donations ($30.4 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $1,713,154 from 1,682 receipts. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring trade titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Contractor in 2014 is $1,713,154 on 1,682 receipts from 872 donors.