FEC individual gifts: Financial Advisor in 2010

Why Financial Advisor and 2010 share a page

Occupation and cycle are independent fields on the same itemized rows. Joining them does not create new receipts. It hides rows that fail either test. After both tests, Financial Advisor in 2010 shows $1,069,091, 1,413 contributions, and 719 donors. The occupation extract without a cycle filter is $27,416,858.

Because labels are filer-entered, FINANCIAL ADVISOR is not a controlled vocabulary. A person can type FINANCIAL ADVISOR on one gift and a longer title on the next. Only the rows that match this string enter $1,069,091. See Financial Advisor donations for the string’s all-cycle dollars and 2010 election cycle for the 2010 mix of every occupation.

Occupation-wide dollars for Financial Advisor

The occupation-wide total for FINANCIAL ADVISOR on this extract is $27,416,858 ($27.4 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2010. $1,069,091 is the 2010 slice (3.9%). FINANCIAL ADVISOR is distinct from FINANCIAL ADVISER, INVESTMENT ADVISOR, INVESTMENT MANAGER, and FINANCIAL CONSULTANT. Spelling and title variants stay separate. The join does not assign a Form ADV or a broker-dealer from the string.

FINANCIAL ADVISOR is not recoded to a Standard Occupational Classification code on this page. Readers who want SOC or BLS employment counts need those agencies. FEC occupation is a free-text field. $27,416,858 inherits that messiness. The 2010 filter does not clean it.

The even-year window that holds $1.1 million

The 2010 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2010 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Financial Advisor accounts for $1,069,091 on 1,413 contributions from 719 donors.

The 2010 filter is the FEC cycle code on the aggregate, not a news-cycle. Primary, runoff, and general dates inside the window are not split in this packet. $1,069,091 is the window sum. Do not allocate it across months or offices without another table.

Donor identity versus contribution rows for FINANCIAL ADVISOR

1,413 contributions and 719 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 1,413 divided by 719 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,069,091 divided by 719 is about $1,487 per donor; $1,069,091 divided by 1,413 is about $757 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

Repeat the units when you quote: $1,069,091 itemized individual contributions, 1,413 lines, 719 unique donors, occupation string FINANCIAL ADVISOR, FEC cycle 2010. Dropping the units is how a join gets rewritten as a headline about an industry bloc.

A complete citation names occupation FINANCIAL ADVISOR, cycle 2010, dollars $1,069,091, contribution lines 1,413, and unique donors 719. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 1,413 as people. Keep all five tokens.

Caveats that travel with $1,069,091

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Financial Advisor as a profession acted in concert in 2010.

Nothing on this page assigns a motive. Itemized receipts are legal disclosures. 719 people who typed FINANCIAL ADVISOR in 2010 produced $1,069,091. That sentence is complete. Adding “because” requires a source this packet does not contain.

Financial Advisor donations is the all-cycle table for this string. 2010 election cycle is the all-occupation table for 2010. All occupations is the string inventory. All FEC ties is the join inventory. None of those pages authorizes adding $1,069,091 to a USAspending obligation total or ranking Financial Advisor as more influential than another title.

Questions

How much Financial Advisor money shows up in 2010 on FEC.gov?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation FINANCIAL ADVISOR total $1,069,091 in the 2010 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 1,413 contributions and 719 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $27,416,858, so 2010 is 3.9% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

How does $1,069,091 relate to $27,416,858?

No. $1,069,091 is the 2010 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $27,416,858 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Financial Advisor donations and not a restatement of 2010 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

What do 719 donors and 1,413 lines mean?

The join lists 719 unique donors and 1,413 contribution lines for FINANCIAL ADVISOR in 2010. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $1,487 per donor and $757 per line are means from $1,069,091, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Is FINANCIAL ADVISOR a recoded occupation category?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string FINANCIAL ADVISOR as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Financial Advisor donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.