Creative Director donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Creative Director × 2008

CREATIVE DIRECTOR plus cycle 2008 equals $216,725. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Art Director, Executive Creative Director, and Creative are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a 2008 agency-awards list or a holding-company staff file. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $5,754,096.

Parent hubs: Creative Director donations and the 2008 election cycle. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $216,725 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Creative Director in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $216,725. CREATIVE DIRECTOR is the typed title. This 2008 window is not the 2012 Creative Director cell. Employer is unpublished. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Donor names are absent and are not invented.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR as typed, not a job census

$5,970,821 belongs to the exact string CREATIVE DIRECTOR across harvested cycles. It is not a 2008 agency-awards list or a holding-company staff file. People who wrote nearby wording — Art Director, Executive Creative Director, and Creative — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 3.6% of that title bucket. Share of CREATIVE DIRECTOR is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $216,725. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,970,821. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Creative Director donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell.

313 Creative Director receipts in a presidential year

137 donors and 313 receipts — about 2.3 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $692; mean per donor about $1,582. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 313 is a line count, not 137 one-time gifts. CREATIVE DIRECTOR is the typed title. This 2008 window is not the 2012 Creative Director cell. Employer is unpublished. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by CREATIVE DIRECTOR.

2008 as a presidential FEC window next to Creative Director

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on individual receipts, not a single calendar year of January filings only. Inside that window, this occupation cell is $216,725 from 313 contributions and 137 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle book remains $5,970,821.

Independent expenditures are omitted from $216,725. Adjacent pages for the 2008 election cycle, Creative Director donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, no percentage of national 2008 giving is claimed.

Self-reported Creative Director versus committee filings

Cite $216,725 as Creative Director in 2008. Cite $5,970,821 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add a professional association’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $216,725 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 3.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode CREATIVE DIRECTOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to read Creative Director money in 2008

This join does not recode CREATIVE DIRECTOR into a 2008 agency-awards list or a holding-company staff file. CREATIVE DIRECTOR is the typed title. This 2008 window is not the 2012 Creative Director cell. Employer is unpublished. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried CREATIVE DIRECTOR are outside $216,725. Independent expenditures are outside $216,725. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much did Creative Director filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Creative Director itemized $216,725 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 313 receipts and 137 donors. That is 3.6% of $5,970,821 under CREATIVE DIRECTOR. Art Director, Executive Creative Director, and Creative are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this count a professional association’s PAC spending?

No. $216,725 is individual contributions tagged Creative Director in 2008. Association committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $216,725 would blend FEC tables. See Creative Director donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Creative Director in 2008 is $216,725 on 313 receipts from 137 donors.

Are creative director labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses CREATIVE DIRECTOR. Art Director, Executive Creative Director, and Creative are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a 2008 agency-awards list or a holding-company staff file. Cite $216,725 for this title in 2008 on 313 receipts from 137 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Creative Director donations ($5,970,821 for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $216,725 from 313 receipts and 137 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Creative Director in 2008.