President and CEO donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

A compound title in 2012

The join requires the occupation field to match PRESIDENT AND CEO, not a Boolean “president or CEO.” The matching 2012 dollars are $1,872,781. People who wrote only CEO or only President are not in this cell.

12.4% of the occupation-string total fell in this presidential cycle. That share uses $1,872,781 over $15,079,165. It is not a share of all executive giving in 2012.

The occupation hub for President and CEO lists $15.1 million ($15,079,165) under the exact string PRESIDENT AND CEO. 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 President and CEO in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.9 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

How title punctuation splits the money

$15.1 million ($15,079,165) belongs to this compound string. President/CEO, President & CEO, and CEO/President are different if the punctuation differs on the form. This extract does not normalize punctuation.

Title splits mean no single LobbyVault occupation page is “all chief executives.” The President and CEO donations hub is this spelling. This ties page is that spelling in 2012.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,872,781. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $15,079,165. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live President and CEO 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 $1,872,781. If a later harvest revises 1,177 or 527, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($15,079,165) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

527 donors behind $1.9 million

527 donors and 1,177 receipts — about 2.2 lines per person — is a concentrated executive cell relative to occupations with thousands of donors. Mean per donor about $3,554; mean per receipt about $1,591. No median.

A 527-donor file can still be dominated by the largest checks. This packet does not name those checks. Sort the live occupation hub by amount for 2012 rows.

1,177 is a receipt count. 527 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 $1.9 million.

Cite the string you measured

Cite $1,872,781 as President and CEO in 2012, not as “CEO giving.” Cite $15,079,165 as this string’s occupation total. Adding other executive titles would be a new study.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations and All FEC ties for sibling titles and joins.

Dividing $1,872,781 by 1,177 receipts yields about $1,591 per line. Dividing by 527 donors yields about $3,554 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.

Title is not a company census

President and CEO does not identify the company, the sector, or whether both words were accurate. Filers who used Chief Executive Officer (spelled out) are on a different occupation page. $1.9 million follows the characters PRESIDENT AND CEO.

No motive, no party, no ranking of executives. 527 is a donor count in this cell, not a count of U.S. chief executives.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode PRESIDENT AND CEO 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 President and CEO filers donate in 2012?

The PRESIDENT AND CEO occupation string accounts for $1,872,781 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 1,177 receipts and 527 donors. That cell is 12.4% of $15,079,165 for the same exact title. CEO and Chief Executive Officer are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Why split President and CEO from CEO?

FEC.gov stores occupation as typed. This join does not treat synonyms as one bucket. $1.9 million is only the compound title in 2012. Merging titles would invent a total the extract does not contain. Use All occupations to open the neighboring executive strings.

Does this include corporate treasury or PAC money?

No. $1,872,781 is individual contributions. Corporate PACs and independent expenditures are different files. Employer is not in this packet, so the 1,177 receipts are not grouped by company. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. President and CEO in 2012 is $1,872,781 on 1,177 receipts from 527 donors.

What two dimensions does this ties page combine?

The President and CEO occupation hub ($15.1 million) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,872,781 from 527 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. Neither parent hub is restated in full here. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. President and CEO in 2012 is $1,872,781 on 1,177 receipts from 527 donors.