Executive political money — 2008 cycle

Executive as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Executive and 2008 — sum to $1,355,825. 1,198 itemized contributions and 325 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Executive hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Executive is a broad job title, not a C-suite census. Three hundred twenty-five donors in 2008 matched that word across 1,198 lines. PRESIDENT and CEO are neighboring keys. Named companies typed as employer sit elsewhere. PRESIDENT, CEO, BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, and named-firm employer strings are other keys. This page is the one-word Executive title.

1.6% of the Executive roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $87,249,417 ($87.2 million). The 2008 slice of $1,355,825 is about 1.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 98.4% ($85,893,592). Treating 2008 as the Executive FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $87,249,417 as the denominator for the 1.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $87,249,417.

1,198 contributions from 325 donors

Dividing $1,355,825 by 1,198 contributions yields about $1,132 per itemized gift. Dividing by 325 donors yields about $4,172 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.7. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

325 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Executive 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Executive is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Executive to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $1,355,825.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $1,355,825 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 1,198 contributions, the 325 unique donors, and the 1.6% share of $87,249,417.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,355,825. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not an executive PAC and not a management-occupations NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 325 donors, and 1,198 contributions. The grouping’s all-cycle book is large relative to the 2008 slice, which is why the share of the lifetime bucket is a small percentage. That arithmetic is a table fact, not proof of a political program. Cite both packet dollars together. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Executive and 2008 together

Start with $1,355,825, then Executive 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Executive, 2008, $1,355,825, 1,198 contributions, 325 donors, 1.6% of $87,249,417, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string EXECUTIVE.

The 1.6% share, the 325-donor count, and the $1,132 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Executive donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,355,825 in itemized individual contributions for the Executive grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,198 contributions and 325 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $87,249,417 all-cycle figure.

What share of Executive FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $87,249,417. The 2008 cell of $1,355,825 is about 1.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 98.4% ($85,893,592) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Executive hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Executive donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Executive. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,355,825 from 325 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Executive 2008 join?

Open Executive 2008 for the cycle overlay, Executive for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.