Geologist donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Geologist × 2008

GEOLOGIST plus cycle 2008 equals $814,017. 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. Petroleum geologist, earth scientist, geophysicist, and mining engineer are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an AAPG membership roll, a state geologist-license file, or an oil-company payroll. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Geologist donations at /occupations/geologist/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $814,017 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Geologist in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $814,017. Petroleum versus environmental versus academic geology is unpublished for Geologist in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

GEOLOGIST as typed, not a specialty board

$9.3 million ($9,308,121) belongs to the exact string GEOLOGIST across harvested cycles. It is not an AAPG membership roll, a state geologist-license file, or an oil-company payroll. People who wrote nearby wording — petroleum geologist, earth scientist, geophysicist, and mining engineer — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 8.7% of that title bucket. Share of GEOLOGIST is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $814,017. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $9,308,121. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Geologist 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. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $814,017.

888 geologist receipts in a presidential year

396 donors and 888 receipts — about 2.2 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $917; mean per donor about $2,056. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 396 donors makes this a modest occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 888 is a line count, not 396 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. Petroleum versus environmental versus academic geology is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by GEOLOGIST. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $814,017.

Occupation versus energy PACs

Cite $814,017 as Geologist in 2008. Cite $9,308,121 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add energy-industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $814,017 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.7%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode GEOLOGIST 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 cite geologist money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation GEOLOGIST, election cycle 2008, $814,017 in itemized individual contributions, 888 receipts, and 396 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $917 per line and $2,056 per donor in the cell. If the live Geologist donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 888 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Geologist donations rolls every cycle into one GEOLOGIST running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Geologist × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 888 receipts and $814,017. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did geologist filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Geologist itemized $814,017 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 888 receipts and 396 donors. That is 8.7% of $9,308,121 under GEOLOGIST. Petroleum geologist, earth scientist, geophysicist, and mining engineer are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include energy-industry PACs?

No. $814,017 is individual contributions tagged Geologist in 2008. Energy-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $814,017 would blend FEC tables. See Geologist donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Geologist in 2008 is $814,017 on 888 receipts from 396 donors.

Are geologist labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses GEOLOGIST. Petroleum geologist, earth scientist, geophysicist, and mining engineer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an AAPG membership roll, a state geologist-license file, or an oil-company payroll. Cite $814,017 for this title in 2008 on 888 receipts from 396 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Geologist donations ($9.3 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $814,017 from 888 receipts and 396 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Geologist in 2008.