Agent political contributions from California

Two keys: AGENT and CA

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string AGENT, donor state CA. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $2,582,622, from 10,534 contributions and 398 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a self-reported occupation. Free-text fields let filers write a longer title, a nearby spelling, or an employer instead. Those rows are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets. Neighbors include insurance agent, real estate agent, talent agent, and registered agent.

$2,582,622 is smaller than $11,103,127 because other states exist, and it is not a share of all California giving because this packet has no state-wide occupation-blind denominator. The join is the point. AGENT is a one-word occupation. Insurance agent and real estate agent are longer neighboring strings and are not added into this California cell.

Agent as typed, not a census

After this California cell of $2,582,622, $8,520,505 of the Agent grouping remains in other states. That remainder is 76.7% of $11,103,127. The California page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No statewide all-occupation total is supplied, so no share of California politics is claimed. 23.3% is Agent-internal. Insurance versus entertainment versus real-estate agency work is unpublished.

Means on $2,582,622

398 donors and 10,534 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 26.5 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$6,489 per donor and $245 per line are derived from $2,582,622. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. Insurance versus entertainment versus real-estate agency work remains unpublished.

Dropping the Agent filter

Dropping the Agent filter returns the reader to the California campaign-finance index. That index is not $2,582,622. Adding the filter back recovers this cell: 10,534 contributions, 398 donors, $2,582,622.

No statewide all-occupation denominator is in the packet, so Agent cannot be ranked as a percent of California itemized giving. 23.3% remains a share of $11,103,127 only.

Keeping $2,582,622 attached to both keys

Keep both nouns in every citation: Agent and California. Dropping the state turns $2,582,622 into $11,103,127. Dropping the occupation turns this cell into the state hub, which this packet does not quantify as an all-occupation total.

Internal paths: /occupations/agent/ for the occupation running total, /states/CA/ for the state without this title, /occupations/ for neighboring strings, /ties/ for other joins. AGENT is a one-word occupation. Insurance agent and real estate agent are longer neighboring strings and are not added into this California cell.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation AGENT ∩ state CA = $2,582,622, 10,534 receipts, 398 donors, 23.3% of $11,103,127. Neighbors remain insurance agent, real estate agent, talent agent, and registered agent. Source remains FEC.gov.

Questions

What did occupation AGENT itemize from CA?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $2,582,622 from occupation Agent with donor state CA. That join covers 10,534 contributions from 398 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $11,103,127, so California is about 23.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What remainder of Agent money sits outside California?

About 23.3% of the $11,103,127 Agent grouping is coded to California: $2,582,622. Contribution share is about 17.5% (10,534 of 60,227). Donor share is about 18.2% (398 of 2,185). The remainder $8,520,505 is other states.

Does this page merge neighboring occupation strings?

No. 398 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $245 across 10,534 contributions. Insurance agent, real estate agent, talent agent, and registered agent, if stored separately, are other keys. This join is AGENT only.

Is this the Agent hub or the California hub?

Agent donations carry the $11,103,127 occupation total. California campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the AGENT × CA intersection only.