Officer occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Officer as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation OFFICER and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $488,616, 674 contributions, and 276 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Police officer, corporate officer, military officer, and corrections officer are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a POST file, an SEC officer list, or a DD-214 extract. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Officer donations at /occupations/officer/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. 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 $488,616 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Officer in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $488,616. Which sense of officer the filer meant is unpublished for Officer in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a one-word ambiguous-title cell in an earlier presidential year.

The same OFFICER string, a 2008 clock

$5.3 million ($5,333,585) belongs to the exact string OFFICER across harvested cycles. It is not a POST file, an SEC officer list, or a DD-214 extract. People who wrote nearby wording — police officer, corporate officer, military officer, and corrections officer — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 9.2% of that title bucket ($488,616 of $5,333,585). Share of OFFICER is not share of all 2008 receipts. The remainder, $4,844,969, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $488,616. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,333,585. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Officer 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 $488,616.

276 officer donors and 674 receipts in 2008

276 donors and 674 receipts — about 2.4 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $725; mean per donor about $1,770. 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 hundreds of lines is a one-word ambiguous-title cell in an earlier presidential year. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 674 is a line count, not 276 one-time gifts. Which sense of officer the filer meant is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by OFFICER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $488,616. Do not add the 2012 Officer cell to this 2008 figure. Each cycle is its own join against the same occupation denominator.

2008 cell versus the 2012 Officer join

Cite $488,616 as Officer in 2008. Cite $5,333,585 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add union and employer PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $488,616 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 9.2%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode OFFICER 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 2008 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Officer money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation OFFICER, election cycle 2008, $488,616 in itemized individual contributions, 674 receipts, and 276 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $725 per line and $1,770 per donor in the cell. If the live Officer donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 674 as unique workers in the trade named by OFFICER.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Officer donations rolls every cycle into one OFFICER running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Officer × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 674 receipts and $488,616. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and the 2012 Officer cell

The occupation hub still holds $4,844,969 outside 2008. Most of the $5,333,585 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. Do not add the 2012 Officer cell to this 2008 figure. Each cycle is its own join against the same occupation denominator. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.4. That ratio is 674 divided by 276, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Officer filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Officer itemized $488,616 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 674 receipts and 276 donors. That is 9.2% of $5,333,585 under OFFICER. Police officer, corporate officer, military officer, and corrections officer are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Are police-union PACs mixed into this 2008 total?

No. $488,616 is individual contributions tagged Officer in 2008. Union and employer PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $488,616 would blend FEC tables. See Officer donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Officer in 2008 is $488,616 on 674 receipts from 276 donors.

Are Officer labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses OFFICER. Police officer, corporate officer, military officer, and corrections officer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a POST file, an SEC officer list, or a DD-214 extract. Cite $488,616 for this title in 2008 on 674 receipts from 276 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Officer donations ($5.3 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $488,616 from 674 receipts and 276 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Officer in 2008.