Counselor occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Counselor as occupation, cycle as the other filter

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation COUNSELOR and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $350,926 ($350,926), 454 contributions, and 205 donors. 7.0% of Counselor occupation dollars ($5,001,105) fall in 2008. 2008 is an earlier presidential-year helping-profession cell: 454 receipts from 205 donors, a different even-year window from the 2012 Counselor join.

Counselor is a one-word helping-profession title as typed, not a license recode. Nearby strings — THERAPIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, and MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR — stay on other pages. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $350,926 or $5,001,105. Therapist and Psychotherapist are other keys; this page does not merge them into COUNSELOR. The FEC file does not verify an LPC, an LMHC, or a school-counselor certificate.

The COUNSELOR string across cycles

On the occupation side, $5,001,105 ($5.0 million) is the Counselor total across cycles. The 2008 cell is 7.0% of that roll; the remaining $4,650,179 sits in other years on the occupation hub and is not itemized by year on this packet. Counselor is not a caseload census and not a proof of a clinical credential. Counselor is not a state counseling-license extract, an NBCC roster, or a school-counselor payroll.

Open Counselor donations for the $5,001,105 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Receipts and donor keys inside this cycle cell

Inside the 2008 cell, 454 itemized contributions map to 205 donors. That is about 2.2 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of everyone who holds a similar job. Dollars per receipt average about $773; dollars per donor average about $1,712. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

2008 is a presidential-year FEC clock. Primaries, the general election, and leftover receipts from adjacent months can share the same even-year label. This packet does not split dollars by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Counselor row. 205 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $350,926.

Two dollar columns, one occupation and one year

Keep $350,926 attached to 2008 and $5,001,105 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2008 dollars that already sit inside the occupation total. Subtracting them does not yield “all other cycles”; it only yields a remainder ($4,650,179) that this packet does not itemize by year.

Cite FEC.gov. Individual contributions are not PAC independent expenditures and not lobbying registrations. Nothing in the join says donations paid for a federal award or a USAspending obligation. Quote $350,926 with both nouns: Counselor and 2008.

What a Counselor cycle join cannot claim

Matching Counselor with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Counselor donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a state counseling-license extract, an NBCC roster, or a school-counselor payroll.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $350,926. A person who wrote this string is in it even if the day job differs. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

Linked counselor hub, cycle hub, and sibling titles

Counselor donations holds the $5,001,105 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Counselor. All occupations places COUNSELOR beside other titles without merging sibling strings (THERAPIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, and MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $350,926 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Counselor dollars ($5,001,105). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $350,926, 454 contributions, 205 donors, 7.0% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use. Amended individual contribution reports can move $350,926; a later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,001,105. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Questions

How much did Counselor-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Counselor grouping’s 2008 cell is $350,926 in itemized individual contributions, from 454 contributions and 205 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $5,001,105 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Counselor mean a licensed mental-health clinician?

The stored string is COUNSELOR with no license field. Guidance Counselor and Mental Health Counselor are other keys if spelled out. Therapist and Psychotherapist sit elsewhere. This join does not check a state board or recode those titles into COUNSELOR.

What share of Counselor FEC money fell in 2008?

About 7.0%. $350,926 divided by $5,001,105 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about $4,650,179 on the occupation hub. See the Counselor occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Counselor 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. $350,926 is itemized receipts tagged COUNSELOR in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.