Office Manager donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Office Manager as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation OFFICE MANAGER and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,446,456, 1,708 contributions, and 908 donors. 2008 is a high-row workplace-title cell, not an industry recode. The occupation hub rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2008 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

Office Manager is a two-word workplace title as typed. Nearby strings — OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR, ADMINISTRATOR, MANAGER, and EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,446,456 or $17,334,839. Medical, legal, and construction offices can share this string; the form does not split them.

2008’s dollar share is 8.3% ($1,446,456 of $17,334,839). 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 $1,446,456.

The Office Manager string across cycles

Under the exact label OFFICE MANAGER, harvested individual contributions sum to $17.3 million ($17,334,839). The 2008 cell is 8.3% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify a supervisory role or an employer. 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.

Office Manager is not a licensed administrator credential and not a payroll headcount. Open Office Manager donations for the $17,334,839 roll. Open the 2008 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.

2008 receipts and donors

Inside the 2008 cell, 1,708 itemized contributions map to 908 donors. That is about 1.9 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 $847; dollars per donor average about $1,593. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and other receipts dated to 2008. This packet does not split $1,446,456 by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Office Manager row. 908 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,446,456 attached to 2008 and $17,334,839 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2008 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 $1,446,456 with both nouns: Office Manager and 2008.

What the Office Manager–2008 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Office Manager is not a licensed administrator credential and not a payroll headcount. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.4 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 a workplace org-chart extract, not a BLS office-support census, and not a firm roster. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 1,708 receipts and 908 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did office managers donate in 2008?

Filers who wrote Office Manager on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,446,456 in the 2008 cycle, across 1,708 receipts from 908 donors. That cell is 8.3% of $17,334,839 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Does Office Manager identify an industry?

No. OFFICE MANAGER is a workplace title with no sector. Administrator, Manager, and Executive Assistant are other keys. Employer is a different FEC field and is not on this join. This page does not recode those strings into OFFICE MANAGER.

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 $17.3 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2008. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.4 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2008 Office Manager total include PACs or party committees?

$1,446,456 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 Office Manager donations hub or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.