Accountant political contributions from Illinois

The Accountant–Illinois intersection

Occupation ACCOUNTANT and donor state IL produce $1,369,924, 6,592 contributions, and 372 donors. The occupation hub is $37,845,841, 203,733 contributions, and 8,434 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.6%; contribution share about 3.2% (6,592 of 203,733); donor share about 4.4% (372 of 8,434). Three hundred seventy-two Illinois donors are 4.4% of 8,434 national ACCOUNTANT donors, a bit ahead of the 3.6% dollar share of $37,845,841. Contribution share (6,592 of 203,733) is about 3.2%.

CPA, BOOKKEEPER, and AUDITOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack ACCOUNTANT with CPA or BOOKKEEPER into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

372 Illinois donors produced 6,592 contributions, about 17.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 24.2 rows per donor nationally (203,733 contributions from 8,434 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $208, against about $186 nationwide. Illinois’s $1,369,924 is a modest slice of a contribution-heavy occupation (203,733 national rows). Mean gift here is about $208, against about $186 nationwide.

ACCOUNTANT as a common occupation string

ACCOUNTANT is a filer-entered string. The word can mean a public-practice accountant, a corporate staff accountant, or a filer who skipped the CPA letters. The file does not say which. The $37,845,841 national total is ACCOUNTANT only. 8,434 donors produced 203,733 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 203,733 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). This page locates the Illinois overlap. It does not add the Illinois CPA cell to invent a combined accounting total.

Illinois as donor state

372 Illinois donors produced 6,592 contributions totaling $1,369,924. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois workplace and not a limit to Illinois candidates. Chicago and downstate share the same two-letter code.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only ACCOUNTANT. The Accountant occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.4% of the $37,845,841. Illinois’s state hub includes every occupation coded to IL. ACCOUNTANT is only this filter.

What not to infer from Accountant plus Illinois

This page does not merge CPA dollars, count licensed accountants, or claim that Accountant-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. ACCOUNTANT fragments against CPA, BOOKKEEPER, and AUDITOR. Those strings never enter the $1,369,924.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ACCOUNTANT is not an Illinois accountancy-board extract. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Accountant filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national ACCOUNTANT occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded ACCOUNTANT in every other state combined. That remainder ($36,475,917) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 372 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 6,592 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,369,924 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the ACCOUNTANT national total, drops a key. Three hundred seventy-two donors producing 6,592 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,369,924 headline.

Related tables

Accountant donations holds the $37,845,841 national occupation total. Illinois campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. The Illinois CPA occupation-state tie is a different packet and is not added here.

Questions

How much have Accountant donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ACCOUNTANT and state Illinois total $1,369,924, from 6,592 contributions and 372 donors. Nationwide, ACCOUNTANT-coded receipts are $37,845,841 from 203,733 contributions and 8,434 donors. Illinois is about 3.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Should Illinois Accountant and CPA cells be added together?

No. ACCOUNTANT and CPA are different stored strings. This join is ACCOUNTANT and state IL only. Three hundred seventy-two Illinois donors used that pair. The 372 Illinois donors used occupation ACCOUNTANT and state IL. Filers who wrote CPA or AUDITOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Accountant FEC money is from Illinois?

About 3.6% of the $37,845,841 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,369,924). Illinois also accounts for about 3.2% of contributions (6,592 of 203,733) and about 4.4% of donors (372 of 8,434). About 3.6% of dollars from 372 of 8,434 donors and 6,592 of 203,733 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,369,924 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.