COO donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

COO as typed, 2012 as dated

Three letters on the occupation line plus a 2012 receipt date produce $1,851,949. LobbyVault does not expand COO into chief operating officer before aggregating. The join is the abbreviation and the cycle, nothing else.

Parent tables: Coo donations (the occupation rollup) and the 2012 election cycle. All FEC ties stores this cell beside other occupation-year pairs so the relationship stays explicit.

The occupation hub for COO lists $18.9 million ($18,870,517) under the exact string COO. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, 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 COO in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.9 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

Abbreviation versus spelled-out title

$18.9 million ($18,870,517) is the COO string, not a complete operating-officer census. People who wrote Chief Operating Officer or C.O.O. land on other keys if the characters differ. Punctuation and spacing matter because the extract does not fuzzy-match titles.

The 2012 slice is 9.8% of the abbreviation’s harvested total. That percentage is not COO’s share of all 2012 executive giving.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,851,949. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $18,870,517. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live COO donations and the live 2012 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 $1,851,949. If a later harvest revises 1,346 or 686, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($18,870,517) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

The 2012 COO file

686 donors produced 1,346 receipts (about 2.0 per donor). Mean per line about $1,376; mean per donor about $2,700. A 686-donor presidential-year cell can still have a heavy upper tail. No median is in the packet.

Operating-officer is a job theory; COO is a filing token. This page reports the token’s 2012 dollars. Committee names are on the live hubs.

1,346 is a receipt count. 686 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 $1.9 million.

Do not expand the acronym in the citation

When citing $1,851,949, keep the letters COO. Expanding the title in a headline would describe a different, unmeasured set. Keep $18,870,517 on the occupation sentence. Do not add the two dollar fields.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring executive strings.

Dividing $1,851,949 by 1,346 receipts yields about $1,376 per line. Dividing by 686 donors yields about $2,700 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.

Limits

COO does not identify company size, sector, or whether the filer still held the role. A deputy who typed COO is in $1.9 million; an operating chief who spelled the title out is not.

No party split, no employer table, no ranking of C-suite titles. 1,346 receipts and 686 donors are the volume facts for this join.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode COO 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 COOs donate in 2012?

Filers who listed the occupation COO itemized $1,851,949 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 1,346 receipts and 686 donors. That is 9.8% of $18,870,517 harvested under COO. Chief Operating Officer spelled out is a different occupation key.

Is COO the same as Chief Operating Officer in FEC data?

Not automatically. The Commission stores the occupation as typed. This join uses the three-letter abbreviation. Spelled-out titles, periods, or extra words are other keys. Cite $1.9 million only for the abbreviation in 2012. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. COO in 2012 is $1,851,949 on 1,346 receipts from 686 donors.

What does this ties page join?

The COO occupation hub ($18.9 million) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlapping cell is $1,851,949 across 1,346 receipts from 686 donors. All FEC ties lists sibling joins. The page does not restate either hub in full.

Does the 2012 COO total include company PACs?

No. $1,851,949 is individual contributions tagged COO. Separate segregated funds are committee filings, not this occupation string. Party and employer are not in the packet. Use Coo donations or the 2012 cycle hub for committee rows. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. COO in 2012 is $1,851,949 on 1,346 receipts from 686 donors.