How much did Executive-labeled donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,223,097 in itemized individual contributions for the Executive grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 886 contributions and 254 donors. The label is a self-reported text bucket, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation count.

Why is 2012 only 1.4% of the Executive total?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $87,249,417. $1,223,097 divided by that figure is about 1.4%. Other cycles in the same employer/occupation key make up the remainder. This page isolates 2012 only.

Are these corporate executives at one company?

No. Executive is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC employer and occupation text. The 254 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm.

Where is the overlay table for this join?

The Executive 2012 cycle overlay lists the underlying rows for this cell. The Executive industry hub and the 2012 election cycle hub remove one filter each. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.

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Executive occupation filings and the 2012 FEC cycle

Filers who wrote Executive in the employer or occupation rollup reported $1,223,097 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 election cycle. FEC.gov aggregates count 886 contributions from 254 donors in that window. Executive here is a text grouping, not a job-title census of corporate America. This page is the intersection of that grouping with the 2012 cycle only, built so the occupation-style key and the two-year window can be read as a pair rather than as a claim about who runs U.S. companies.

Key figures

Executive × 2012 is $1,223,097 in itemized individual FEC contributions.
The cell includes 886 contributions from 254 donors.
All-cycle Executive totals are $87,249,417; 2012 is about 1.4%.
Executive is a self-reported text grouping, not a company.
The join does not rank occupations or assign political motive.

Why Executive and 2012 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like strings that appear often enough on FEC schedules to form their own buckets. Executive is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2012 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $1,223,097 — a cell, not a verdict on executives as a class. Named-company keys such as a bank or a software employer are stored separately even when a filer might also be an executive there.

The same Executive grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $87,249,417. The 2012 slice is about 1.4% of that stack. A presidential-year cell that is a small fraction of a large occupation bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2012 was quiet in federal politics overall; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Executive filter.

What the Executive string actually captures

Donors type titles. Some write CEO, some write president, some write Executive. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy on this site. People who listed a company name instead of a title land in employer groupings, not here. People who listed Executive and a company may still be rolled to this occupation-style key depending on the match rules. The packet does not publish those rules in detail; it publishes the resulting totals.

Because the label is generic, the 254 donors in 2012 are not a sample of one firm. They are 254 contributor identities whose matched text fell in the Executive grouping. Mixing this page with a named-company join would double-count or mis-attribute dollars. Keep the keys separate. A filer who listed both a title and a company name may still land in only one rollup on this site; the packet does not publish a dual-key assignment.

886 contributions, 254 donors

Dividing $1,223,097 by 886 contributions yields about $1,380 per itemized gift. Dividing by 254 donors yields about $4,815 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.5. Those figures describe the shape of the cell — moderately repeated giving, not a one-check population — without identifying a median or a party split. High contribution-to-donor ratios can reflect multiple recipients, several reports in the two-year window, or both.

Averages hide tails. Nothing in the packet says whether a few large gifts dominate the $1,223,097 or whether the 254 donors cluster near the mean. The overlay table is the place to inspect rows; this prose only restates the four published facts and the ratios computed from them.

The 2012 cycle without the occupation filter

2012 is a full FEC two-year cycle. Its published cycle page includes every employer and occupation the database stores for that window. The Executive cell is one row in that much larger matrix. Nothing in the $1,223,097 ranks Executive against attorney, retired, or homemaker strings. Comparisons require opening those other joins, each with their own facts. Inventing a league table from this page alone would be a ranking this packet does not support.

Caveats that come with a title bucket

Occupation fields are messy. Homemakers, retirees, and executives are among the most duplicated and most inconsistently spelled labels in FEC files. Itemization thresholds hide smaller gifts. The $87,249,417 all-cycle total is still only the matched, itemized individual universe for this key.

Do not read the join as evidence that executives funded 2012. The records show a text match and a date window. Motive, coordination, and outcomes are not in the table. Federal contract and grant data live elsewhere; sharing a calendar year with USAspending does not turn these itemized gifts into award funding.

Using the hubs without mixing keys

For the unfiltered occupation key, use the Executive hub. For the unfiltered year window, use the 2012 election cycle. The Executive 2012 overlay is the join’s table view. All FEC ties lists sibling relationship pages built from other keys. Those pages have their own cycle totals; $1,223,097 belongs only here.

The 1.4% share versus $87,249,417 is a reminder that Executive is a long-running text bucket. 2012 is one cell in that series, with 886 contributions and 254 donors. Keep the series and the cell distinct when you cite the numbers.

Questions

How much did Executive-labeled donors give in 2012?: FEC.gov aggregates show $1,223,097 in itemized individual contributions for the Executive grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 886 contributions and 254 donors. The label is a self-reported text bucket, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation count.
Why is 2012 only 1.4% of the Executive total?: The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $87,249,417. $1,223,097 divided by that figure is about 1.4%. Other cycles in the same employer/occupation key make up the remainder. This page isolates 2012 only.
Are these corporate executives at one company?: No. Executive is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC employer and occupation text. The 254 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm.
Where is the overlay table for this join?: The Executive 2012 cycle overlay lists the underlying rows for this cell. The Executive industry hub and the 2012 election cycle hub remove one filter each. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.