Lobbyist political money in the 2014 FEC cycle

How the Lobbyist × 2014 join is built

LobbyVault intersects self-reported occupation with FEC two-year cycle. For LOBBYIST in 2014, the dollar cell is $1,219,840. The line cell is 1,624 contributions. The person cell is 540 donors. Those three figures describe one filter applied to FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. They are not three independent studies, and they are not a fourth total created by adding the occupation hub to the cycle hub.

The occupation hub Lobbyist donations still holds $15,512,853 across the extract. The cycle hub 2014 election cycle covers every occupation in 2014, not only Lobbyist. This ties page exists because a reader asked for both filters at once. All FEC ties is the directory of those intersections. All occupations remains the inventory of other strings that were not recoded into LOBBYIST.

The Lobbyist occupation total on this extract

The occupation-wide total for LOBBYIST on this extract is $15,512,853 ($15.5 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2014. $1,219,840 is the 2014 slice (7.9%). LOBBYIST here is the occupation on an individual contribution, not an LDA lobbying-disclosure total and not a registrant count. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LOBBYIST/ATTORNEY, and CONSULTANT remain other keys. The join does not match these receipts to quarterly LDA filings.

Do not treat $15,512,853 as a labor-market size. It is disclosed itemized receipts whose occupation field matched LOBBYIST. People who never itemized, who used another spelling, or who left occupation blank are outside $15,512,853. The 2014 cell is a further filter on that already-narrow set. Open Lobbyist donations for names and committees on the occupation hub rather than inventing a workforce count from 540.

What the 2014 FEC cycle covers on this join

The 2014 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2014 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, Lobbyist accounts for $1,219,840 on 1,624 contributions from 540 donors.

The cycle hub 2014 election cycle includes every occupation string, including labels that are not LOBBYIST. This page is the Lobbyist subset of that hub. Adding this cell to other occupation–2014 cells would rebuild a cycle total only if every occupation key were included — which this packet does not list. Do not treat $1,219,840 as a share of all 2014 receipts; that denominator is not in the facts.

Contribution rows versus unique Lobbyist donors in 2014

1,624 contributions and 540 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. 1,624 divided by 540 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,219,840 divided by 540 is about $2,259 per donor; $1,219,840 divided by 1,624 is about $751 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

Name matching can split one person into two donor keys or merge two people into one. 540 is therefore an index count, not a guaranteed civil roster of Lobbyist workers. Do not convert 540 into an employment statistic. Do not convert $2,259 into a statement about what a typical Lobbyist contributed in 2014.

What this Lobbyist–2014 page is not

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 Lobbyist as a profession acted in concert in 2014.

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Typos, abbreviations, and bilingual titles all create extra keys. LOBBYIST here is the occupation on an individual contribution, not an LDA lobbying-disclosure total and not a registrant count. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LOBBYIST/ATTORNEY, and CONSULTANT remain other keys. The join does not match these receipts to quarterly LDA filings. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. For the live occupation table use Lobbyist donations; for the live cycle table use 2014 election cycle; for peer strings use all occupations; for other joins use all FEC ties.

Questions

How much did Lobbyist filers give in the 2014 FEC cycle?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation LOBBYIST total $1,219,840 in the 2014 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 1,624 contributions and 540 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $15,512,853, so 2014 is 7.9% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

Is $1,219,840 the full Lobbyist occupation total?

No. $1,219,840 is the 2014 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $15,512,853 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Lobbyist donations and not a restatement of 2014 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

How many Lobbyist donors are in the 2014 cell?

The join lists 540 unique donors and 1,624 contribution lines for LOBBYIST in 2014. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $2,259 per donor and $751 per line are means from $1,219,840, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Does Lobbyist include nearby job titles in 2014?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string LOBBYIST 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 Lobbyist donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.