Therapist occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Therapist as occupation, cycle as the other filter

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation THERAPIST and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $351,971 ($351,971), 348 contributions, and 160 donors. 6.1% of Therapist occupation dollars ($5,798,623) fall in 2008. 2008 is a presidential-year one-word helping-profession cell: 348 receipts from 160 donors, kept separate from Physical Therapist and Psychotherapist.

Therapist is a one-word helping-profession title as typed, not a specialty recode. Nearby strings — PHYSICAL THERAPIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, COUNSELOR, and OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST — stay on other pages. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $351,971 or $5,798,623. Physical Therapist and Psychotherapist are longer keys and are not folded into THERAPIST. The FEC file does not verify a PT, OT, LCSW, or other clinical license.

The THERAPIST string across cycles

On the occupation side, $5,798,623 ($5.8 million) is the Therapist total across cycles. The 2008 cell is 6.1% of that roll; the remaining $5,446,652 sits in other years on the occupation hub and is not itemized by year on this packet. Therapist is not a caseload census and not a proof of a named specialty. Therapist is not a state therapy-license extract, an APTA/APA roll, or a clinic payroll.

Open Therapist donations for the $5,798,623 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Receipts and donor keys inside this cycle cell

Inside the 2008 cell, 348 itemized contributions map to 160 donors. That is about 2.2 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of everyone who holds a similar job. Dollars per receipt average about $1,011; dollars per donor average about $2,200. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

2008 is a presidential-year FEC clock. Primaries, the general election, and leftover receipts from adjacent months can share the same even-year label. This packet does not split dollars by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Therapist row. 160 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $351,971.

Two dollar columns, one occupation and one year

Keep $351,971 attached to 2008 and $5,798,623 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2008 dollars that already sit inside the occupation total. Subtracting them does not yield “all other cycles”; it only yields a remainder ($5,446,652) that this packet does not itemize by year.

Cite FEC.gov. Individual contributions are not PAC independent expenditures and not lobbying registrations. Nothing in the join says donations paid for a federal award or a USAspending obligation. Quote $351,971 with both nouns: Therapist and 2008.

What a Therapist cycle join cannot claim

Matching Therapist with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Therapist donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a state therapy-license extract, an APTA/APA roll, or a clinic payroll.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $351,971. A person who wrote this string is in it even if the day job differs. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

Linked therapist hub, cycle hub, and sibling titles

Therapist donations holds the $5,798,623 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Therapist. All occupations places THERAPIST beside other titles without merging sibling strings (PHYSICAL THERAPIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, COUNSELOR, and OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $351,971 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Therapist dollars ($5,798,623). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $351,971, 348 contributions, 160 donors, 6.1% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use. Amended individual contribution reports can move $351,971; a later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,798,623. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Questions

How much did Therapist-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Therapist grouping’s 2008 cell is $351,971 in itemized individual contributions, from 348 contributions and 160 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $5,798,623 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Therapist mean physical therapy or psychotherapy?

The stored string is THERAPIST with no specialty. Physical Therapist, Psychotherapist, Occupational Therapist, and Counselor are other keys. This join does not recode those titles into THERAPIST or check a state board. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Therapist in 2008 is $351,971 on 348 receipts from 160 donors.

What share of Therapist FEC money fell in 2008?

About 6.1%. $351,971 divided by $5,798,623 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about $5,446,652 on the occupation hub. See the Therapist occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Therapist 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. $351,971 is itemized receipts tagged THERAPIST in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.