Public Relations money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Public Relations as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation PUBLIC RELATIONS and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $933,888, 873 contributions, and 383 donors. PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2012 uses the same two-word phrase as the 2008 join, with fewer gifts and fewer donor keys. The occupation hub is $8,958,749 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2012 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2012’s dollar share is 10.4% ($933,888 of $8,958,749). The remainder, $8,024,861, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale communications-phrase cell in a presidential year. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $933,888.

The same PR phrase, a different two-year clock

$8,958,749 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2012. Publicist, Communications, and Marketing are other occupation keys if stored as different strings. Adding those keys to $8,958,749 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Public Relations donations for the $8,958,749 roll. Open the 2012 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

383 donors and a four-figure mean gift

Dividing $933,888 by 873 contributions yields about $1,070 per gift. Dividing by 383 donors yields about $2,438 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.3 (873 ÷ 383). Those ratios describe this string in 2012, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

383 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2012. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 383 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2012 receipts beside this cell. Do not add the 2008 Public Relations cell to this 2012 figure. Each cycle is its own join against the same occupation denominator.

What Public Relations dollars in 2012 are not

A 10.4% share of Public Relations-coded dollars from 2012 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2012 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $933,888 as itemized individual receipts tagged PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2012, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Public Relations × 2012

A complete claim names Public Relations and 2012, then $933,888, 873 contributions, 383 donors, and 10.4% of $8,958,749, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 383 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Public Relations and 2012—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $1,070 and mean per donor $2,438 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2012 hub, and the 2008 PR cell

The occupation hub still holds $8,024,861 outside 2012. Most of the $8,958,749 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. Publicist, Communications, and Marketing are other occupation keys if stored as different strings. Those titles are not parents of PUBLIC RELATIONS on this page. Gifts per donor in 2012 average about 2.3. That ratio is 873 divided by 383, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Public Relations-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $933,888 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Public Relations in the 2012 FEC cycle, from 873 contributions and 383 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $8,958,749, so 2012 is 10.4% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every public relations who donated in 2012?

No. The 383 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2012. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $933,888 on 873 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Public Relations occupation money is the 2012 cycle?

10.4%: $933,888 of $8,958,749. The remaining $8,024,861 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $933,888 divided by $8,958,749, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Public Relations and 2012 tables?

Public Relations donations carries the $8,958,749 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle hub places Public Relations 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 Public Relations × 2012 intersection only.