Financial Planner occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Financial Planner as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation FINANCIAL PLANNER and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $474,952, 713 contributions, and 319 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. CFP, financial advisor, wealth manager, and investment advisor are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a CFP Board census, an SEC RIA file, or a broker-dealer PAC. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Financial Planner donations at /occupations/financial-planner/ and the 2012 election cycle at /election-cycles/2012/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $474,952 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Financial Planner in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $474,952. Independent versus wirehouse versus RIA practice is unpublished for Financial Planner in 2012. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and seven hundred receipts is a mid-scale advice-title cell in a presidential year.

FINANCIAL PLANNER, not financial advisor

$5.8 million ($5,763,769) belongs to the exact string FINANCIAL PLANNER across harvested cycles. It is not a CFP Board census, an SEC RIA file, or a broker-dealer PAC. People who wrote nearby wording — CFP, financial advisor, wealth manager, and investment advisor — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 8.2% of that title bucket ($474,952 of $5,763,769). Share of FINANCIAL PLANNER is not share of all 2012 receipts. The remainder, $5,288,817, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $474,952. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,763,769. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Financial Planner donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $474,952.

319 financial-planner donors and 713 receipts in 2012

319 donors and 713 receipts — about 2.2 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $666; mean per donor about $1,489. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Hundreds of donor keys and seven hundred receipts is a mid-scale advice-title cell in a presidential year. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 713 is a line count, not 319 one-time gifts. Independent versus wirehouse versus RIA practice is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by FINANCIAL PLANNER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $474,952. This page is not a ranking of advice credentials. CFP as three letters, if stored separately, is another key.

Advice title versus securities-industry PACs

Cite $474,952 as Financial Planner in 2012. Cite $5,763,769 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add securities-industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $474,952 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.2%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode FINANCIAL PLANNER 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. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2012 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Financial Planner money in 2012

A clean footnote names occupation FINANCIAL PLANNER, election cycle 2012, $474,952 in itemized individual contributions, 713 receipts, and 319 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $666 per line and $1,489 per donor in the cell. If the live Financial Planner donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 713 as unique workers in the trade named by FINANCIAL PLANNER.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Financial Planner donations rolls every cycle into one FINANCIAL PLANNER running total. The 2012 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2012 total. Only the Financial Planner × 2012 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 713 receipts and $474,952. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2012 hub, and Financial Advisor as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $5,288,817 outside 2012. Most of the $5,763,769 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. This page is not a ranking of advice credentials. CFP as three letters, if stored separately, is another key. Gifts per donor in 2012 average about 2.2. That ratio is 713 divided by 319, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Financial Planner filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Financial Planner itemized $474,952 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 713 receipts and 319 donors. That is 8.2% of $5,763,769 under FINANCIAL PLANNER. CFP, financial advisor, wealth manager, and investment advisor are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include broker-dealer PACs?

No. $474,952 is individual contributions tagged Financial Planner in 2012. Securities-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $474,952 would blend FEC tables. See Financial Planner donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Financial Planner in 2012 is $474,952 on 713 receipts from 319 donors.

Are Financial Planner labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses FINANCIAL PLANNER. CFP, financial advisor, wealth manager, and investment advisor are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a CFP Board census, an SEC RIA file, or a broker-dealer PAC. Cite $474,952 for this title in 2012 on 713 receipts from 319 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Financial Planner donations ($5.8 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $474,952 from 713 receipts and 319 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Financial Planner in 2012.