Pharmacist donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Pharmacist as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation PHARMACIST and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,307,220, 1,996 contributions, and 1,029 donors. 2008 is a high-donor clinical-title cell with about two thousand receipts. 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.

Pharmacist is a clinical title as typed, not a board roster. Nearby strings — PHARMACY OWNER, PHARMACY, PHARM D, and PHARMACY TECHNICIAN — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,307,220 or $19,178,714. Pharm D as an abbreviation, if stored, is another key and is not merged into PHARMACIST here.

2008’s dollar share is 6.8% ($1,307,220 of $19,178,714). 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 $1,307,220.

The Pharmacist string across cycles

Under the exact label PHARMACIST, harvested individual contributions sum to $19.2 million ($19,178,714). The 2008 cell is 6.8% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify a pharmacist license or a Pharm.D. 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.

Pharmacist is not a DEA registrant list and not a PBM contract file. Open Pharmacist donations for the $19,178,714 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, 1,996 itemized contributions map to 1,029 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 $655; dollars per donor average about $1,270. 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 $1,307,220 by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Pharmacist row. 1,029 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,307,220 attached to 2008 and $19,178,714 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 $1,307,220 with both nouns: Pharmacist and 2008.

What the Pharmacist–2008 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Pharmacist is not a DEA registrant list and not a PBM contract file. 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 a state board of pharmacy extract, not an NABP file, and not a chain-store headcount. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 1,996 receipts and 1,029 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did pharmacists donate in 2008?

Filers who wrote Pharmacist on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,307,220 in the 2008 cycle, across 1,996 receipts from 1,029 donors. That cell is 6.8% of $19,178,714 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Are these licensed pharmacists?

Occupation is PHARMACIST. The FEC file does not check a state board license. Pharmacy Owner, Pharmacy, and Pharmacy Technician are other keys. This page does not recode those strings into PHARMACIST or confirm a retail versus hospital setting. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Pharmacist in 2008 is $1,307,220 on 1,996 receipts from 1,029 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 $19.2 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2008. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.3 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2008 Pharmacist total include PACs or party committees?

$1,307,220 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 Pharmacist donations hub or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.