Retail occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Retail as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Retail in 2008 is $325,633 on 390 itemized lines from 220 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 6.5% of $5,030,135 is $325,633. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

390 itemized lines from 220 unique donors is about 1.8 receipts per donor. Mean per line about $835; mean per donor about $1,480. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 220 people still used that title after 2008. Retailer and retail owner remain other keys. This page does not recode those longer titles into the one-word RETAIL bucket.

This page is not a restatement of the Retail hub or of the 2008 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $325,633.

A sector word, not a store-payroll census

Filers who typed RETAIL produced the all-cycle occupation total of $5,030,135 ($5.03 million). Owner, manager, and clerk uses can collapse into the sector word. This extract does not restore those longer titles. The occupation is not a NAICS retail-trade total, a store-headcount census, or a retail PAC.

220 donors in a presidential-year window

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Retail. $325,633 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. A presidential-year FEC window. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

390 itemized lines from 220 unique donors is about 1.8 receipts per donor. Mean per line about $835; mean per donor about $1,480. About 1.8 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $325,633. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a broad sector-word cell in a presidential window. Three numbers define the Retail × 2008 cell: dollars $325,633, contribution rows 390, unique donors 220. Share of occupation dollars is 6.5% of $5,030,135.

What Retail dollars in 2008 are not

Matching Retail with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Retail donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a NAICS retail-trade total, a store-headcount census, or a retail PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Owner, manager, and clerk uses can collapse into the sector word. This extract does not restore those longer titles. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $325,633 funded USAspending obligations.

How to cite Retail × 2008

A complete claim names Retail and 2008, then $325,633, 390 contributions, 220 donors, and 6.5% of $5,030,135, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 220 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Retail and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $835 and mean per donor $1,480 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Retailer as a sibling

Retail donations holds the $5,030,135 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Retail. All occupations places RETAIL beside other titles without merging sibling strings (RETAILER, RETAIL OWNER, and MERCHANT). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $325,633 is not added to a different year. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

The occupation hub still holds $4,704,502 (93.5%) outside 2008. Most of the $5,030,135 roll is not this cycle’s cell. Retailer and retail owner remain other keys. This page does not recode those longer titles into the one-word RETAIL bucket. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 1.8. That ratio is 390 divided by 220, not a measure of turnout. Quote both keys: Retail and 2008. Quote the dollars: $325,633. Quote the volume: 390 contributions, 220 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Retail-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Retail grouping’s 2008 cell is $325,633 in itemized individual contributions, from 390 contributions and 220 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $5,030,135 all-cycle occupation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Retail a NAICS industry total?

No. RETAIL here is an occupation string on individual contributions, not a NAICS retail-trade roll-up. The 2008 cycle filter on Retail is $325,633, 390 contributions, and 220 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $5,030,135.

What share of Retail FEC money fell in 2008?

About 6.5%. $325,633 divided by $5,030,135 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 93.5% ($4,704,502) on the occupation hub. See the Retail occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Retail 2008 money fund federal awards?

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. $325,633 is itemized receipts tagged RETAIL in 2008, not an obligation total. Cite the 2008 intersection as $325,633 and 390 contributions from 220 donors, not the $5,030,135 occupation total.