Physicist occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Physicist as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation PHYSICIST and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $515,415, 789 contributions, and 333 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Physics, research physicist, scientist, and engineer are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an APS membership roll, a DOE lab headcount, or a university payroll. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Physicist donations at /occupations/physicist/ 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 $515,415 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Physicist in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $515,415. Academic versus national-lab versus industry physics is unpublished for Physicist in 2008.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 mid-scale science-title cell inside a large all-cycle Physicist roll.

PHYSICIST, not generic scientist

$10.0 million ($9,957,534) belongs to the exact string PHYSICIST across harvested cycles. It is not an APS membership roll, a DOE lab headcount, or a university payroll. People who wrote nearby wording — physics, research physicist, scientist, and engineer — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 5.2% of that title bucket ($515,415 of $9,957,534). Share of PHYSICIST is not share of all 2008 receipts. The remainder, $9,442,119, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $515,415. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $9,957,534. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Physicist 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 $515,415.

333 physicist donors and 789 receipts in 2008

333 donors and 789 receipts — about 2.4 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $653; mean per donor about $1,548. 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 mid-scale science-title cell inside a large all-cycle Physicist roll. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 789 is a line count, not 333 one-time gifts. Academic versus national-lab versus industry physics is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by PHYSICIST. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $515,415. This page is not a ranking of scientific disciplines. Quote PHYSICIST and 2008 together.

Science title versus university PACs

Cite $515,415 as Physicist in 2008. Cite $9,957,534 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add university and energy-lab contractor PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $515,415 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 5.2%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode PHYSICIST 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 Physicist money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation PHYSICIST, election cycle 2008, $515,415 in itemized individual contributions, 789 receipts, and 333 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $653 per line and $1,548 per donor in the cell. If the live Physicist donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 789 as unique workers in the trade named by PHYSICIST.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Physicist donations rolls every cycle into one PHYSICIST running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Physicist × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 789 receipts and $515,415. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Scientist as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $9,442,119 outside 2008. Most of the $9,957,534 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. This page is not a ranking of scientific disciplines. Quote PHYSICIST and 2008 together. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.4. That ratio is 789 divided by 333, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Physicist filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Physicist itemized $515,415 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 789 receipts and 333 donors. That is 5.2% of $9,957,534 under PHYSICIST. Physics, research physicist, scientist, and engineer are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include university or lab-contractor PACs?

No. $515,415 is individual contributions tagged Physicist in 2008. University and energy-lab contractor PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $515,415 would blend FEC tables. See Physicist donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Physicist in 2008 is $515,415 on 789 receipts from 333 donors.

Are Physicist labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PHYSICIST. Physics, research physicist, scientist, and engineer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an APS membership roll, a DOE lab headcount, or a university payroll. Cite $515,415 for this title in 2008 on 789 receipts from 333 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Physicist donations ($10.0 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $515,415 from 789 receipts and 333 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Physicist in 2008.