Researcher occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Researcher as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation RESEARCHER and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $479,756, 851 contributions, and 377 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Research scientist, scientist, research analyst, and academic are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an NSF researcher census, a PhD-holder file, or a university PAC. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Researcher donations at /occupations/researcher/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $479,756 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Researcher in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $479,756. Discipline, academic versus industry versus government labs is unpublished for Researcher in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and eight hundred-plus receipts is a mid-scale generic-research cell inside a large all-cycle Researcher roll.

RESEARCHER, not scientist or analyst

$13.1 million ($13,109,440) belongs to the exact string RESEARCHER across harvested cycles. It is not an NSF researcher census, a PhD-holder file, or a university PAC. People who wrote nearby wording — research scientist, scientist, research analyst, and academic — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 3.7% of that title bucket ($479,756 of $13,109,440). Share of RESEARCHER is not share of all 2008 receipts. The remainder, $12,629,684, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $479,756. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $13,109,440. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Researcher donations and the live 2008 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 $479,756.

377 researcher donors and 851 receipts in 2008

377 donors and 851 receipts — about 2.3 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $564; mean per donor about $1,273. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Hundreds of donor keys and eight hundred-plus receipts is a mid-scale generic-research cell inside a large all-cycle Researcher roll. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 851 is a line count, not 377 one-time gifts. Discipline, academic versus industry versus government labs is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by RESEARCHER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $479,756. A single-digit share of a large occupation total is still a mid-six-figure cycle cell. Do not treat the share as a disappearance.

Generic research title versus university PACs

Cite $479,756 as Researcher in 2008. Cite $13,109,440 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add university and industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $479,756 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 3.7%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode RESEARCHER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Researcher money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation RESEARCHER, election cycle 2008, $479,756 in itemized individual contributions, 851 receipts, and 377 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $564 per line and $1,273 per donor in the cell. If the live Researcher donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 851 as unique workers in the trade named by RESEARCHER.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Researcher donations rolls every cycle into one RESEARCHER running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Researcher × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 851 receipts and $479,756. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Scientist as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $12,629,684 outside 2008. Most of the $13,109,440 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. A single-digit share of a large occupation total is still a mid-six-figure cycle cell. Do not treat the share as a disappearance. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.3. That ratio is 851 divided by 377, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Researcher filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Researcher itemized $479,756 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 851 receipts and 377 donors. That is 3.7% of $13,109,440 under RESEARCHER. Research scientist, scientist, research analyst, and academic are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include university PACs?

No. $479,756 is individual contributions tagged Researcher in 2008. University and industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $479,756 would blend FEC tables. See Researcher donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Researcher in 2008 is $479,756 on 851 receipts from 377 donors.

Are Researcher labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses RESEARCHER. Research scientist, scientist, research analyst, and academic are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an NSF researcher census, a PhD-holder file, or a university PAC. Cite $479,756 for this title in 2008 on 851 receipts from 377 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Researcher donations ($13.1 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $479,756 from 851 receipts and 377 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Researcher in 2008.