Principal occupation money in the 2014 FEC cycle

Principal as occupation, 2014 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string PRINCIPAL. The other is the 2014 federal election cycle. The match is $3,917,748, built from 4,019 contributions and 1,552 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Four thousand gifts from 1,552 donors implies more than two itemized rows per donor in 2014. That repeat rate is a filing fact, not proof of a professional association’s PAC.

Average contribution is about $975; average per donor is about $2,524. Those means are arithmetic on the 2014 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. About 2.6 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio, not a headcount of unique humans behind every spelling variant.

PRINCIPAL is an ambiguous typed title

PRINCIPAL on an FEC line can mean a school administrator, a law-firm or consulting partner, or a small-business owner. The bulk file does not split those uses. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, if typed that way, would be another string.

$43,606,592 is every cycle combined for PRINCIPAL. $3,917,748 in 2014 is about 9.0% of that stack. Other windows hold about 91.0% ($39,688,844). A cycle cell at 9.0% is a chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, MANAGING PRINCIPAL, and OWNER are other occupation pages if stored separately. Combining them without naming each source total mixes keys.

1,552 donors and 4,019 gifts in 2014

1,552 unique donors against 4,019 contributions implies some repeat giving inside the 2014 window. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. One person can appear more than once if addresses or names vary. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $3,917,748.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode PRINCIPAL into a NAICS industry or a licensing roster. Recipients of the campaign gifts live on the occupation hub and the 2014 cycle hub.

About 9.0% of a $43.6 million occupation stack

9.0% is $3,917,748 divided by $43,606,592. Reading only 2014 understates the parent occupation book. Reading only the parent hides that this cycle’s share is 9.0%. The leftover outside 2014 is $39,688,844. Those other-cycle dollars are not itemized on this relationship page.

Presidential-year and midterm windows are different FEC two-year clocks. This page cites cycle 2014 only. A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $43,606,592 is shared.

What a Principal–2014 join cannot claim

This page does not rank principals as more political than teachers or CEOs. It does not identify schools or firms. Recipients remain overlay fields on the occupation and cycle hubs.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Correlation between a job title and a cycle total is not causation. Cite $3,917,748, 4,019 contributions, and 1,552 donors for Principal in 2014. Cite $43,606,592 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov.

Related Principal and 2014 tables

Principal donations is the occupation hub behind $43,606,592. The 2014 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot. If a hub disagrees with $3,917,748, 4,019 gifts, or 1,552 donor IDs, the hub and FEC.gov control.

Keep the occupation string PRINCIPAL attached to $3,917,748 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2014. Keep 4,019 contributions and 1,552 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Principal in 2014 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. The all-cycle occupation total $43,606,592 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Principal-labeled donors give in 2014?

The Principal grouping’s 2014 cell is $3,917,748 in itemized individual contributions, from 4,019 contributions and 1,552 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $43,606,592 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Principal mean a school principal?

No. This cell is the self-reported string PRINCIPAL matched to cycle 2014. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, MANAGING PRINCIPAL, and OWNER are other keys if stored separately. The FEC does not verify that the title matches a license or payroll. See the Principal occupation hub for other cycles and the 2014 cycle hub for other strings.

What share of Principal FEC money fell in 2014?

About 9.0%. $3,917,748 divided by $43,606,592 is the 2014 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 91.0% ($39,688,844) on the occupation hub. See the Principal occupation hub for other cycles and the 2014 cycle hub for other strings.

Is this a professional-association PAC total?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $3,917,748 is itemized receipts tagged PRINCIPAL in 2014, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts never enter this cell. FEC.gov is the source.