Geologist donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Geologist as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation GEOLOGIST and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $1,276,267, 1,180 contributions, and 470 donors. 2012 is a science-title cell with under five hundred donors. The occupation hub rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2012 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

Geologist is a scientific title as typed, not a sector recode. Nearby strings — SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST, and HYDROGEOLOGIST — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,276,267 or $9,308,121. Campus, survey, and energy-company uses share GEOLOGIST unless the filer added a modifier.

2012’s dollar share is 13.7% ($1,276,267 of $9,308,121). The remainder sits in other cycles on the occupation hub and is not itemized by year on this packet. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,276,267.

The Geologist string across cycles

Under the exact label GEOLOGIST, harvested individual contributions sum to $9.3 million ($9,308,121). The 2012 cell is 13.7% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify a PG license, a PE stamp, or a resource-company job. A share in a presidential cycle is a slice, not proof that the remaining dollars sat in any particular other year. Those other years are not in this packet.

Geologist is not a USGS employment file and not a mining-claim roll. Open Geologist donations for the $9,308,121 roll. Open the 2012 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

2012 receipts and donors

Inside the 2012 cell, 1,180 itemized contributions map to 470 donors. That is about 2.5 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of everyone who holds a similar job. Dollars per receipt average about $1,082; dollars per donor average about $2,715. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and other receipts dated to 2012. This packet does not split $1,276,267 by those stages or by party. The 2012 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Geologist row. 470 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2012, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,276,267 attached to 2012 and $9,308,121 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2012 dollars that already sit inside the occupation total. Subtracting them does not yield “all other cycles”; it only yields a remainder that this packet does not itemize by year.

Cite FEC.gov. Individual contributions are not PAC independent expenditures and not lobbying registrations. Nothing in the join says donations paid for a federal award, a research grant, or a USAspending obligation. Quote $1,276,267 with both nouns: Geologist and 2012.

What the Geologist–2012 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Geologist is not a USGS employment file and not a mining-claim roll. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.3 million. A person who wrote this string is in it even if the day job differs. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

No motive, no vote, no ranking of occupations. Not an AIPG roster, not a state geologist-license extract, and not an oil-company headcount. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 1,180 receipts and 470 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did geologists donate in 2012?

Filers who wrote Geologist on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,276,267 in the 2012 cycle, across 1,180 receipts from 470 donors. That cell is 13.7% of $9,308,121 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Does Geologist mean oil-and-gas geologists?

The stored string is GEOLOGIST with no employer. Petroleum Geologist and Hydrogeologist are other keys if filers spelled them out. Scientist and Engineer sit elsewhere. This page does not recode those strings into GEOLOGIST or confirm a minerals desk. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Geologist in 2012 is $1,276,267 on 1,180 receipts from 470 donors.

What is an occupation-cycle join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of one self-reported occupation key and one even-numbered FEC cycle. The occupation hub holds $9.3 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2012. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.3 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2012 Geologist total include PACs or party committees?

$1,276,267 is an aggregate of individual contributions whose occupation field matches this string. It is not PAC independent spending, not committee-to-committee transfers, and not a party split. This packet has no party field. Open the Geologist donations hub or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.