Physicist donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Physicist × 2014

PHYSICIST plus cycle 2014 equals $601,598. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2014. Scientist, Professor, Researcher, and Physicist Retired are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an APS membership roll, a lab payroll, or a federal-lab contractor census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $9,355,936.

Parent hubs: Physicist donations and the 2014 election cycle. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $601,598 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Physicist in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $601,598. PHYSICIST is the occupation string. Scientist and Professor are other keys. Academic versus national-lab versus industry physics is unpublished. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Donor names are absent and are not invented.

PHYSICIST as typed, not a job census

$9,957,534 belongs to the exact string PHYSICIST across harvested cycles. It is not an APS membership roll, a lab payroll, or a federal-lab contractor census. People who wrote nearby wording — Scientist, Professor, Researcher, and Physicist Retired — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2014 slice is 6.0% of that title bucket. Share of PHYSICIST is not share of all 2014 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $601,598. 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 2014 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell.

744 Physicist receipts in a midterm year

224 donors and 744 receipts — about 3.3 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $809; mean per donor about $2,686. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 744 is a line count, not 224 one-time gifts. PHYSICIST is the occupation string. Scientist and Professor are other keys. Academic versus national-lab versus industry physics is unpublished. 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 $601,598.

2014 as a midterm FEC window next to Physicist

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on individual receipts, not a single calendar year of January filings only. Inside that window, this occupation cell is $601,598 from 744 contributions and 224 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle book remains $9,957,534.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other occupation. Occupation pages for Physicist still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Physicist × 2014. Independent expenditures are omitted from $601,598. Adjacent pages for the 2014 election cycle, Physicist donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts.

Self-reported Physicist versus committee filings

Cite $601,598 as Physicist in 2014. Cite $9,957,534 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add a professional association’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $601,598 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 6.0%.

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 midterm-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to read Physicist money in 2014

This join does not recode PHYSICIST into an APS membership roll, a lab payroll, or a federal-lab contractor census. PHYSICIST is the occupation string. Scientist and Professor are other keys. Academic versus national-lab versus industry physics is unpublished. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried PHYSICIST are outside $601,598. Independent expenditures are outside $601,598. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much did Physicist filers donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Physicist itemized $601,598 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 744 receipts and 224 donors. That is 6.0% of $9,957,534 under PHYSICIST. Scientist, Professor, Researcher, and Physicist Retired are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this count a professional association’s PAC spending?

No. $601,598 is individual contributions tagged Physicist in 2014. Association committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $601,598 would blend FEC tables. See Physicist donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Physicist in 2014 is $601,598 on 744 receipts from 224 donors.

Are physicist labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PHYSICIST. Scientist, Professor, Researcher, and Physicist Retired are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an APS membership roll, a lab payroll, or a federal-lab contractor census. Cite $601,598 for this title in 2014 on 744 receipts from 224 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Physicist donations ($9,957,534 for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $601,598 from 744 receipts and 224 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Physicist in 2014.