Public Relations donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Two keys: PUBLIC RELATIONS and 2014

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string PUBLIC RELATIONS, cycle 2014. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $440,856, from 574 contributions and 221 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a self-reported occupation. Free-text fields let filers write a longer title, a nearby spelling, or an employer instead. Those rows are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets. Neighbors include PR, publicist, communications, and media relations.

$440,856 is smaller than $8,958,749 because other cycles exist, and it is not a share of national 2014 giving because this packet has no cycle-wide denominator. The join is the point. PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2014 is a midterm cell on a function string. Communications and PR are neighboring abbreviations and titles.

Public Relations as typed, not a census

After this 2014 cell of $440,856, $8,517,893 of the Public Relations grouping remains in other even-year windows. That remainder is 95.1% of $8,958,749. The 2014 page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No national 2014 total is supplied, so no share of the election is claimed. 4.9% is Public Relations-internal. Agency versus in-house versus independent public-relations work is unpublished.

Means on $440,856

221 donors and 574 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 2.6 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$1,995 per donor and $768 per line are derived from $440,856. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. Agency versus in-house versus independent public-relations work remains unpublished.

2014 is not Election Day

An election-night search is the wrong grain for $440,856. The FEC cycle 2014 is a two-year bucket. Dates belong on the overlay, not in invented subtotals.

The cycle hub and this tie differ by one filter. The hub is all strings in 2014. The tie is Public Relations in 2014. Only the tie is $440,856. PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2014 is a midterm cell on a function string. Communications and PR are neighboring abbreviations and titles.

Form text is not a payroll file

Do not treat 574 receipts as unique workers in the trade named PUBLIC RELATIONS. Do not treat 221 donors as a labor-force estimate. Agency versus in-house versus independent public-relations work is unpublished. Communications-industry PAC filings file as committees and are omitted.

PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2014 is a midterm cell on a function string. Communications and PR are neighboring abbreviations and titles. Neighbors — PR, publicist, communications, and media relations — stay on their own occupation-cycle URLs. Mixing them into $440,856 would invent a sector total this packet does not contain.

Keeping $440,856 attached to both keys

Keep both nouns in every citation: Public Relations and 2014. Dropping the year turns $440,856 into $8,958,749. Dropping the occupation turns this cell into the year hub, which this packet does not quantify.

Internal paths: /occupations/public-relations/ for the occupation running total, /election-cycles/2014/ for the year without this title, /occupations/ for neighboring strings, /ties/ for other joins. PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2014 is a midterm cell on a function string. Communications and PR are neighboring abbreviations and titles.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation PUBLIC RELATIONS ∩ cycle 2014 = $440,856 itemized individual contributions, 574 receipts, 221 donors, 4.9% of $8,958,749. Neighbors remain PR, publicist, communications, and media relations. Unpublished split: agency versus in-house versus independent public-relations work. Not recoded into a PRSA membership roll, a firm headcount, or a NAICS advertising-and-PR rollup. Source remains FEC.gov. PUBLIC RELATIONS in 2014 is a midterm cell on a function string. Communications and PR are neighboring abbreviations and titles.

Questions

What did occupation PUBLIC RELATIONS itemize in 2014?

Filers who listed Public Relations itemized $440,856 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 574 receipts and 221 donors. That is 4.9% of $8,958,749 under PUBLIC RELATIONS. PR, publicist, communications, and media relations are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Do committee filings sit inside Public Relations 2014 money?

No. $440,856 is individual contributions tagged Public Relations in 2014. Communications-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $440,856 would blend FEC tables. See Public Relations donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Public Relations in 2014 is $440,856 on 574 receipts from 221 donors.

Does this page merge neighboring occupation strings?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PUBLIC RELATIONS. PR, publicist, communications, and media relations are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a PRSA membership roll, a firm headcount, or a NAICS advertising-and-PR rollup. Cite $440,856 for this title in 2014 on 574 receipts from 221 donors.

What join produces $440,856?

Public Relations donations ($9.0 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $440,856 from 574 receipts and 221 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Public Relations in 2014.