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Retail occupation money in the 2014 FEC cycle

Retail × 2014 equals $219,557 on FEC individual contribution aggregates — 269 receipts, 129 donors. 4.4% of the Retail occupation total $5,030,135 falls in this midterm cycle. Retail as an occupation string is not an industry-code table from USAspending or BLS. This page is FEC individual receipts tagged RETAIL in 2014. This overlay is not a restatement of the Retail hub or the 2014 cycle hub.

Key figures

  • RETAIL in cycle 2014: $219,557.
  • 269 contributions from 129 donors.
  • Occupation total $5,030,135 (4.4% in this window).
  • Not a job census, license file, or award table.
  • Parent links: occupation, cycle, occupations index, ties index.

Retail money inside FEC cycle 2014

Treat $219,557 as a join result. Retail is one side; FEC cycle 2014 is the other. Retail as an occupation string is not an industry-code table from USAspending or BLS. This page is FEC individual receipts tagged RETAIL in 2014. Independent expenditures are omitted. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold are omitted.

The overlay target is the Retail occupation path. Canonical copy lives at the ties slug for Retail in 2014. Live tables can move after a later FEC harvest; this prose is a packet snapshot of $219,557, 269 receipts, and 129 donors.

Cite $219,557 with both sides of the join in the same sentence: Retail and 2014. Omitting either side turns a cell into a hub restatement. Retail as an occupation string is not an industry-code table from USAspending or BLS. This page is FEC individual receipts tagged RETAIL in 2014.

Reading the Retail occupation total

Do not read 4.4% as intensity or a planned 2014 campaign. It is arithmetic on two packet facts. The occupation hub is where the other windows live. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

Retail donations as a hub still include every other cycle. The 2014 cycle hub still includes every other occupation. Mixing those hubs into $219,557 would double-count or drop filters.

How 269 contributions sit behind $219,557

People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $219,557. Retail Manager, Retail Sales, and Store Manager are examples of other keys. 129 is the donor-key count inside this cell only.

Retail as an occupation string is not an industry-code table from USAspending or BLS. This page is FEC individual receipts tagged RETAIL in 2014. Volume statistics stay inside the join: 269 lines, 129 donors, $219,557 in cycle 2014.

Retail dollars outside 2014

Do not read 4.4% as a claim about Retail turnout in a midterm year. It is $219,557 divided by $5,030,135. Odd-year receipts inside the 2014 window are in $219,557 if they were itemized against RETAIL.

Midterm is a description of the even-year window type, not a field that splits receipts into primary versus general. The Commission’s cycle tag is 2014.

Committees, PACs, and the Retail string

Program Manager, Product Manager, and similar English collisions are separate keys when the characters differ. Here the key is RETAIL. RETAIL is the typed one-word title. Longer retail job strings are other keys. Chain versus independent employer is unpublished.

The source note is unchanged: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What this Retail join is not

Amended filings and later harvests can revise $219,557 and $5,030,135. Until then, the packet is the snapshot: Retail × 2014 = $219,557.

Keep the sentence complete: Retail filers, cycle 2014, $219,557, 269 receipts, 129 donors, source FEC.gov. Dropping the source or the cycle turns a join into a slogan.

The occupation string RETAIL is copied from the FEC occupation field without a Bureau of Labor Statistics recode. Retail in 2014 remains $219,557 on 269 itemized lines from 129 donor keys. Neighboring English is a different row.

Readers who need committee names should leave this overlay and open the Retail occupation hub or the 2014 election-cycle hub. Those hubs are linked. This file does not invent committee names, donor names, or award recipients. $219,557 is an individual-contribution sum.

Itemization thresholds mean small gifts can exist outside $219,557. The packet does not estimate that omitted tail. Independent expenditures are a different FEC form class and are omitted from the Retail × 2014 cell. Unitemized receipts are omitted.

The remainder $4,810,578 belongs to other harvested cycles under the same occupation string. This page does not name those other years because they are not packet fields. Quote 2014 only for $219,557.

Self-reported occupation is not verified employment. A filer can type RETAIL while holding a different payroll title. The harvest groups on the typed string. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates remain the source.

This overlay is a two-table join. One side is the Retail occupation hub; the other is the 2014 election-cycle hub. The intersection published here is $219,557 from 269 contributions and 129 donors. Restating only one hub would drop a filter. Title and H1 name both sides. Packet facts are the only numbers cited.

Questions

What headline number should a citation use for Retail in 2014?
$219,557, with 269 contributions and 129 donors, from FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Mention both Retail and cycle 2014. The occupation total $5,030,135 is a different figure and should not replace the cell.
Does a higher Retail mean in 2014 imply typical gift size?
No. Arithmetic means from $219,557 / 269 and $219,557 / 129 are not medians. Skew is unpublished. Repeat giving explains 269 exceeding 129. Quote counts alongside dollars.
Is this a donor page for Retail?
No. It is an occupation × cycle join. 129 is a donor-key count without names. Inventing donor names would violate the packet. Retail in 2014 is $219,557 on 269 itemized individual receipts.
How does this Retail page differ from the 2014 cycle hub?
The cycle hub includes every occupation string in 2014. This overlay keeps only RETAIL, totaling $219,557. The occupation hub includes every cycle for Retail, totaling $5,030,135. All FEC ties lists other two-table pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. Occupation labels are filer-entered.