Plumber political money in the 2008 FEC cycle

How the Plumber and 2008 tables meet

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Plumber and 2008 — sum to $127,091. The cell holds 158 itemized contributions and 76 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. PLUMBER in 2008 is $127,091 from 158 receipts and 76 donors (2.2% of $5,890,623). Pipefitter and plumbing contractor remain other occupation strings.

Neither the Plumber hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Plumber is self-reported licensed-trade occupation. Plumbing contractor, pipefitter, master plumber, and plumber/owner remain other groupings. Open Plumber donations for other cycles, and the 2008 election cycle for other occupation strings.

Dividing $127,091 by 158 contributions yields about $804 per itemized gift. Dividing by 76 donors yields about $1,672 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.1. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical salary.

2.2% of stored Plumber dollars

2008 holds $127,091 of $5,890,623 — 2.2%. The leftover $5,763,532 is 97.8% of the labeled roll. Those leftover dollars are other cycles, not missing 2008 money.

Share language here is always $127,091 over $5,890,623. It is never $127,091 over all 2008 FEC receipts. No national cycle denominator is in the packet.

Volume: 158 lines, 76 identities

158 itemized contributions from 76 donors produced $127,091. About 2.1 lines per donor is a mean. The packet supplies no median and no largest-gift figure.

Contributor keys can include retirees and household members who reused a workplace or title. 76 is not a labor-force estimate for Plumber.

Exclusions around $127,091

Outside $127,091: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $127,091: itemized individual receipts matching PLUMBER in cycle 2008.

The page is self-reported licensed-trade occupation, not a union PAC, a master-plumber license census, or Plumbing Contractor as a sibling. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as an association political budget.

Because 2008 is about 2.2% of $5,890,623, most stored Plumber money sits outside this window ($5,763,532). The occupation hub is the index for those other cycles.

Volume math uses only three facts: $127,091, 158 contributions, 76 donors. Derived means are $804 per gift and $1,672 per identity. They describe this cell, not typical American giving.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, occupation PLUMBER, election cycle 2008, $127,091, 158 contributions, 76 donors (2.2% of $5,890,623 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $127,091, the live table controls.

Searchers often want a single Tuesday. FEC cycle 2008 is two years. Both years can feed $127,091. Dates, if needed, belong on the overlay, not as invented subtotals.

The Commission does not verify that PLUMBER is a license or a current job. Plumber is self-reported licensed-trade occupation. $127,091 is a text-match aggregate for 2008 itemized individual receipts.

Where to go next from this join

Open Plumber donations for the $5,890,623 occupation total. Open the 2008 election cycle hub to place Plumber beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Plumber × 2008 intersection only.

A durable citation names PLUMBER, 2008, $127,091, 158 contributions, 76 donors, and FEC.gov. Add 2.2% of $5,890,623 when lifetime context is required.

The occupation string PLUMBER is filer-entered. FEC.gov does not recode it into a license class or a NAICS code. Neighboring titles remain other occupation hubs.

Cycle 2008 is a two-year FEC tag. Itemized receipts from both years of that window sit in $127,091 if they carried this occupation string.

Unique donors in this packet number 76. This file does not publish names for those keys. Repeat gifts explain why contributions (158) exceed donor keys.

Unitemized gifts never enter $127,091. Independent expenditures, committee transfers, and USAspending awards are other tables and other datasets.

Questions

How much did Plumber-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $127,091 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Plumber in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 158 contributions and 76 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $5,890,623, so 2008 is 2.2% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

How much of $5,890,623 is the 2008 cell?

$127,091 of $5,890,623 is 2.2%. The leftover $5,763,532 is other even-year windows on the occupation hub, not this join. Volume in 2008 is 158 itemized contributions from 76 donors. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Source: FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts.

Does this count every plumber who donated in 2008?

No. The 76 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to PLUMBER in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $127,091 on 158 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate. Plumbing contractor, pipefitter, master plumber, and plumber/owner are other keys if stored separately.

Where are the live Plumber and 2008 tables?

Plumber donations carries the $5,890,623 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Plumber beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Plumber × 2008 intersection only.