Associate political contributions from Pennsylvania

The Associate–Pennsylvania intersection

Occupation ASSOCIATE and donor state PA produce $790,094, 1,867 contributions, and 110 donors. The occupation hub is $14,867,080, 55,072 contributions, and 2,045 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 5.3%; contribution share about 3.4% (1,867 of 55,072); donor share about 5.4% (110 of 2,045). One hundred ten Pennsylvania donors sit inside 2,045 national ASSOCIATE donors. Dollars ($790,094 of $14,867,080) and rows (1,867 of 55,072) describe a mid-size cell on a vague title.

ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, SALES ASSOCIATE, and RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack ASSOCIATE with ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY or SALES ASSOCIATE into a single Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

110 Pennsylvania donors produced 1,867 contributions, about 17.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 26.9 rows per donor nationally (55,072 contributions from 2,045 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Pennsylvania cell is about $423, against about $270 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s $790,094 is not a bar-association extract. The same four letters cover many jobs. Do not treat the cell as a Philadelphia law-firm census.

ASSOCIATE as a rank-style catch-all

ASSOCIATE is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not say whether the filer meant a law firm, a store floor, a university, or a consultancy. The $14,867,080 national total is ASSOCIATE only. 2,045 donors produced 55,072 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 55,072 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Pennsylvania (PA). Fifty-five thousand seventy-two national contributions make ASSOCIATE a high-volume bucket. This tie locates the Pennsylvania overlap only.

Pennsylvania as donor state

110 Pennsylvania donors produced 1,867 contributions totaling $790,094. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. PA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Pennsylvania bar number, and not a map of which campaigns received the $790,094.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only ASSOCIATE. The Associate occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 94.7% of the $14,867,080. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every occupation coded to PA. ASSOCIATE is only this filter.

What not to infer from Associate plus Pennsylvania

This page does not count law-firm associates, rank employers, or claim that Associate-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. ASSOCIATE is not ATTORNEY and not SALES ASSOCIATE even when filers meant those roles.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ASSOCIATE is not a bar or employer roster. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Associate filter

Subtract the Pennsylvania dollars on this page from the national ASSOCIATE occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded ASSOCIATE in every other state combined. That remainder ($14,076,986) 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 110 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 1,867 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $790,094 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the ASSOCIATE national total, drops a key. One hundred ten donors producing 1,867 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $790,094 headline.

Related tables

Associate donations holds the $14,867,080 national occupation total. Pennsylvania 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. NURSE and VETERINARIAN are other Pennsylvania occupation ties with different facts.

Questions

How much have Associate donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ASSOCIATE and state Pennsylvania total $790,094, from 1,867 contributions and 110 donors. Nationwide, ASSOCIATE-coded receipts are $14,867,080 from 55,072 contributions and 2,045 donors. Pennsylvania is about 5.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Associate mean a law-firm associate?

The file does not say. ASSOCIATE is the string on the form. The 110 Pennsylvania donors used that label plus PA. Longer titles sit in other buckets if filers used them. The 110 Pennsylvania donors used occupation ASSOCIATE and state PA. Filers who wrote ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY or RESEARCH ASSOCIATE may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Associate FEC money is from Pennsylvania?

About 5.3% of the $14,867,080 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($790,094). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 3.4% of contributions (1,867 of 55,072) and about 5.4% of donors (110 of 2,045). The join is a catch-all title, not a single profession.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $790,094 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to PA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.