Real Estate political money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Real Estate as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation REAL ESTATE and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $9,864,646, 7,445 contributions, and 4,141 donors. REAL ESTATE is a trade label on 2008 receipts. FEC.gov does not verify licenses or property holdings. The occupation hub is $103,921,024 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 9.5% ($9,864,646 of $103,921,024). The remainder, $94,056,378, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Thousands of donor keys in a housing-crash presidential year is a broad occupation cell, not a census of brokerages. 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 $9,864,646.

The Real Estate string across every cycle on file

$103,921,024 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. REALTOR, REAL ESTATE BROKER, and DEVELOPER are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $103,921,024 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Real Estate donations for the $103,921,024 roll. Open the 2008 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.

4,141 donors and a 2008 mean gift

Dividing $9,864,646 by 7,445 contributions yields about $1,325 per gift. Dividing by 4,141 donors yields about $2,382 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 1.8 (7,445 ÷ 4,141). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

4,141 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 4,141 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell.

What 9.5% of Real Estate dollars is not

A 9.5% share of Real Estate-coded dollars from 2008 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 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $9,864,646 as itemized individual receipts tagged REAL ESTATE in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Real Estate × 2008

A complete claim names Real Estate and 2008, then $9,864,646, 7,445 contributions, 4,141 donors, and 9.5% of $103,921,024, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 4,141 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Real Estate and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $1,325 and mean per donor $2,382 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, cycle hub, and Developer as a sibling key

The occupation hub still holds $94,056,378 outside 2008. Most of the $103,921,024 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. REALTOR, REAL ESTATE BROKER, and DEVELOPER are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of REAL ESTATE on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 1.8. That ratio is 7,445 divided by 4,141, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Real Estate-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $9,864,646 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Real Estate in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 7,445 contributions and 4,141 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $103,921,024, so 2008 is 9.5% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every real estate who donated in 2008?

No. The 4,141 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to REAL ESTATE in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $9,864,646 on 7,445 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Real Estate occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

9.5%: $9,864,646 of $103,921,024. The remaining $94,056,378 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $9,864,646 divided by $103,921,024, 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 Real Estate and 2008 tables?

Real Estate donations carries the $103,921,024 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Real Estate 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 Real Estate × 2008 intersection only.