Sales occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

How Sales and 2008 meet in FEC itemized receipts

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string SALES. The other is the 2008 federal election cycle. The match is $5,068,953, built from 6,137 contributions and 3,277 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. 2008 is a presidential-year FEC window. 6,137 contributions from 3,277 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. SALES is a one-word occupation, not a sector code. Sales manager and salesperson, if typed in full, sit on other pages. The 2008 join does not map donors to employers, product lines, or commission structures. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $5,068,953. FEC individual receipts are not USAspending.gov awards; this page does not treat campaign gifts as federal spending.

What the SALES label covers

Sales donations is the occupation hub: $70,603,695 ($70.6 million) across cycles from filers who typed the single word SALES. Sibling strings (SALES MANAGER, SALESPERSON, and ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE) are not merged here. The occupation total is not a NAICS retail census, a company sales-force headcount, or a sales PAC.

2008’s $5,068,953 sits inside $70,603,695. Because 7.2% is the cycle’s share of occupation dollars, the leftover outside 2008 is $65,534,742 (92.8%). Open the occupation hub for the all-cycle table. This tie keeps 2008 as the second dimension.

What the 2008 election cycle contributes to Sales

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Sales. $5,068,953 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

6,137 contributions from 3,277 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $826; mean per donor about $1,547. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $5,068,953.

Limits of the Sales 2008 occupation-cycle table

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

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SALES is a one-word occupation, not a sector code. Sales manager and salesperson, if typed in full, sit on other pages. The 2008 join does not map donors to employers, product lines, or commission structures. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $5,068,953 funded USAspending obligations.

Linked Sales and 2008 tables

Sales donations holds the $70,603,695 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Sales. All occupations places SALES beside other titles without merging sibling strings (SALES MANAGER, SALESPERSON, and ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $5,068,953 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Sales dollars ($70,603,695). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $5,068,953, 6,137 contributions, 3,277 donors, 7.2% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Repeat gifts inside Sales 2008

6,137 contributions from 3,277 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Name matching can split or merge people across filings, so 3,277 is an index unique-person count for this pair, not a professional-association census.

6,137 is the row count. $5,068,953 is the dollar count. Neither is a license count. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Occupation labels remain filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Sales-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Sales grouping’s 2008 cell is $5,068,953 in itemized individual contributions, from 6,137 contributions and 3,277 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $70,603,695 all-cycle occupation total.

What industry is Sales on this page?

The FEC occupation field is the word SALES. This join does not assign a NAICS industry or employer. The 2008 cycle filter on Sales is $5,068,953, 6,137 contributions, and 3,277 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $70,603,695. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Sales FEC money fell in 2008?

About 7.2%. $5,068,953 divided by $70,603,695 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 92.8% ($65,534,742) on the occupation hub. See the Sales occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Sales 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. $5,068,953 is itemized receipts tagged SALES in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.