self employed/Physician money in federal elections

A space that splits the cluster

FEC free text is literal. self employed/Physician with a space is a different industry key from Self-Employed/Physician with a hyphen, SELF EMPLOYED PHYSICIAN without the slash, or PHYSICIAN alone. This packet’s facts belong to self employed/Physician: $3,540,464, 9,032 contributions, 792 donors, top employer self employed/Physician. Adding the hyphenated mixed-case pair would invent a combined private-practice total the facts do not contain.

Nine thousand thirty-two gifts from 792 people is about 11 itemized transactions per donor. Mean gift size is about $392; mean per donor is about $4,470. That lighter density than several payroll stamps in this wave is consistent with fewer repeat itemizations under a clinical slash pair. The packet does not split specialties.

Guide-only URL, no overlayTarget

The harvest packet omits overlayTarget, so this file is a standalone guide at /guides/self-employed-physician-political-donations-2/. Internal links still include the self employed/Physician donor-table path (/industries/self-employed-physician/), all industries, and occupation breakdowns. If a live hub uses the hyphenated Self-Employed/Physician overlay, do not treat this JSON as a merge layer.

Readers comparing physician self-employment political money must keep each spelling on its own page. The space is not decoration; it is the key. A hyphenated Self-Employed/Physician overlay elsewhere is a different grouped string.

What $3,540,464 does not include

It does not include hospital legal names that filers typed instead of the slash pair. It does not include association PAC filings unless an individual receipt itself carries this string. It does not include a corporate treasury figure. It is the itemized FEC sum for self employed/Physician as aggregated by LobbyVault from FEC.gov.

Occupation titles such as PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD are a separate dimension. Use occupation breakdowns for those cuts. Unitemized gifts never appear in the $3.5M figure.

Using 792 unique donors

Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this string. It does not verify current private-practice status. Alumni, part-time clinicians, and people who reused the spaced pair can remain in the 792. Name matching can split or merge people across filings. The 792 unique-person count is not a census of self-employed physicians.

Cycle years are absent. This guide does not assign the dollars to an election. Party share is not on the industry headline. Follow the donor-table path for disclosed recipients.

Source

Industry self employed/Physician; $3,540,464; 9,032 contributions; 792 donors; top employer self employed/Physician. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Because overlayTarget is missing, the canonical URL is the standalone guide. Internal links still include the donor-table path, all industries, and occupation breakdowns. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Self-Employed/Physician with a hyphen is a different key; this guide does not add the two.

Spaced slash pair versus hyphenated Self-Employed/Physician

self employed/Physician with a space keyed $3.5M from 9,032 contributions and 792 donors. About 11 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $392 are arithmetic on those facts. Self-Employed/Physician, SELF-EMPLOYED, and PHYSICIAN are different keys; this guide does not add them. Unitemized gifts are omitted.

Because overlayTarget is missing, the canonical URL is the standalone guide. Internal links still include the donor-table path, all industries, and occupation breakdowns. The 792 unique donors are matching text inside the spaced slash pair, not a medical-board headcount.

Open the self employed/Physician donor table path for names and committees. All industries lists other clinical and self-employment spellings, including the hyphenated pair. Occupation breakdowns list PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD titles. This page does not assign $3,540,464 to a cycle year. Do not invent a combined private-practice total.

Repeat the four facts when citing this page: $3,540,464, 9,032 contributions, 792 donors, top employer self employed/Physician. Hospital legal names typed differently remain other slugs. Amendments can revise the snapshot. Cite self employed/Physician with the space as stored. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

How much have self employed/Physician-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $3,540,464 to the self employed/Physician employer string, from 9,032 contributions and 792 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not a medical-association PAC and not a NAICS physician-office total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this the same as Self-Employed/Physician with a hyphen?

No. self employed/Physician with a space is a distinct grouped key as stored. Self-Employed/Physician, SELF-EMPLOYED, and PHYSICIAN are separate keys if stored that way. LobbyVault does not add those rows into this total. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include hospital-employed physicians?

Only if the grouped employer text is self employed/Physician. Hospital legal names are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the spaced slash pair. Staff who typed SURGEON or MD sit in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed self employed/Physician?

The rollup counts 792 donors and 9,032 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a medical-board headcount of private-practice physicians. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.