Pharmacist donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Pharmacist × 2012

PHARMACIST plus cycle 2012 equals $1,532,499. Pharmacy owner, Pharm.D., and pharmacy technician are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode state pharmacy-board licenses.

Parent hubs: Pharmacist donations and the 2012 election cycle. All FEC ties keeps the pharmacist title as its own occupation-year cell.

The occupation hub for Pharmacist lists $19.2 million ($19,178,714) under the exact string PHARMACIST. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Pharmacist in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.5 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A clinical title string

$19.2 million ($19,178,714) belongs to PHARMACIST. It is not a NABP census and not a chain-pharmacy payroll. People who wrote pharmacy or PharmD with different punctuation are other rows if the characters differ.

The 2012 slice is 8.0% of that title bucket. Other cycle amounts are not listed here.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,532,499. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $19,178,714. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Pharmacist donations and the live 2012 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 $1,532,499. If a later harvest revises 2,119 or 1,015, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($19,178,714) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

2,119 pharmacist receipts in 2012

1,015 donors and 2,119 receipts — about 2.1 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $723; mean per donor about $1,510. A 1,015-donor presidential-year file is a mid-size clinical cell. No median.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 2,119 is a line count, not 1,015 one-time gifts. Retail versus hospital versus independent is not encoded in the occupation string.

2,119 is a receipt count. 1,015 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.5 million.

Searchers comparing Pharmacist with another occupation must open that other occupation’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.0%. Share of PHARMACIST is not share of all 2012 receipts. The 2012 election cycle hub is the page that holds the cycle’s occupation mix; this ties page holds one row of it.

Title versus pharmacy PACs

Cite $1,532,499 as Pharmacist in 2012. Cite $19,178,714 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add chain-pharmacy or association PAC dollars to either figure.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring clinical titles.

Dividing $1,532,499 by 2,119 receipts yields about $723 per line. Dividing by 1,015 donors yields about $1,510 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a license file

LobbyVault does not match pharmacy-board licenses. A filer who typed Pharmacist is in $1.5 million; a licensed pharmacist who typed pharmacy owner may not be.

No ranking of clinical jobs, no party split, no claim about drug pricing. 2,119 receipts and 1,015 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode PHARMACIST into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did pharmacists donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Pharmacist itemized $1,532,499 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 2,119 receipts and 1,015 donors. That is 8.0% of $19,178,714 under PHARMACIST. Pharmacy owner and pharmacy technician are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Does this include pharmacy-chain or association PACs?

No. $1.5 million is individual contributions tagged Pharmacist. Company and association PACs file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $1,532,499 would blend FEC tables. See Pharmacist donations or the 2012 cycle hub for committee names. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Pharmacist in 2012 is $1,532,499 on 2,119 receipts from 1,015 donors.

Are pharmacist labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PHARMACIST. Pharm.D., RPh, and pharmacy owner are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode licenses. Cite $1.5 million for this title in 2012. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Pharmacist in 2012 is $1,532,499 on 2,119 receipts from 1,015 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Pharmacist donations ($19.2 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,532,499 from 2,119 receipts. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring clinical titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Pharmacist in 2012 is $1,532,499 on 2,119 receipts from 1,015 donors.