Secretary donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Secretary × 2008

SECRETARY plus cycle 2008 equals $830,406. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Executive secretary, cabinet secretary, administrative assistant, and office secretary are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a cabinet roster, an administrative-assistant census, or a clerical payroll. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Secretary donations at /occupations/secretary/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $830,406 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Secretary in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $830,406. Clerical secretary versus cabinet Secretary of a department is unpublished for Secretary in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

SECRETARY as typed, clerical or cabinet unknown

$10.2 million ($10,153,281) belongs to the exact string SECRETARY across harvested cycles. It is not a cabinet roster, an administrative-assistant census, or a clerical payroll. People who wrote nearby wording — executive secretary, cabinet secretary, administrative assistant, and office secretary — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 8.2% of that title bucket. Share of SECRETARY is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $830,406. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $10,153,281. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Secretary 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 $830,406.

773 secretary receipts in a presidential year

420 donors and 773 receipts — about 1.8 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,074; mean per donor about $1,977. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 420 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 773 is a line count, not 420 one-time gifts; receipts sit close to the donor count, so many people in the cell appear on a small number of lines. Clerical secretary versus cabinet Secretary of a department is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by SECRETARY. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $830,406.

Ambiguous title versus employer PACs

Cite $830,406 as Secretary in 2008. Cite $10,153,281 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add the employer’s PAC to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $830,406 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.2%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode SECRETARY 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.

How to cite secretary money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation SECRETARY, election cycle 2008, $830,406 in itemized individual contributions, 773 receipts, and 420 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,074 per line and $1,977 per donor in the cell. If the live Secretary donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 773 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Secretary donations rolls every cycle into one SECRETARY running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Secretary × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 773 receipts and $830,406. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did secretary filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Secretary itemized $830,406 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 773 receipts and 420 donors. That is 8.2% of $10,153,281 under SECRETARY. Executive secretary, cabinet secretary, administrative assistant, and office secretary are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include employer PACs?

No. $830,406 is individual contributions tagged Secretary in 2008. The employer’s PAC file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $830,406 would blend FEC tables. See Secretary donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Secretary in 2008 is $830,406 on 773 receipts from 420 donors.

Are secretary labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses SECRETARY. Executive secretary, cabinet secretary, administrative assistant, and office secretary are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a cabinet roster, an administrative-assistant census, or a clerical payroll. Cite $830,406 for this title in 2008 on 773 receipts from 420 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Secretary donations ($10.2 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $830,406 from 773 receipts and 420 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Secretary in 2008.