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Business Owner political contributions from Pennsylvania

Nationwide, occupation BUSINESS OWNER totals $82,755,159 across 221,498 contributions and 13,449 donors on FEC.gov. Pennsylvania (PA) donors with that same label account for $2,258,495, 4,924 contributions, and 464 donors — 2.7% of the occupation dollars. Georgia and Massachusetts Business Owner are sibling state joins in this slice. SELF EMPLOYED is a different occupation string.

Key figures

  • Pennsylvania Business Owner-coded donors account for $2,258,495, 4,924 contributions, and 464 donors.
  • The national Business Owner occupation total is $82,755,159 from 13,449 donors and 221,498 contributions.
  • Pennsylvania holds 2.7% of Business Owner-coded dollars and 3.5% of Business Owner-coded donors.
  • BUSINESS OWNER is not SELF EMPLOYED or OWNER; each string keeps its own state cell if present.

Business Owner and Pennsylvania against the national book

Donor state PA plus occupation BUSINESS OWNER is the join. Pennsylvania dollars are $2,258,495. National dollars are $82,755,159. Contribution shares: 2.2% (4,924 of 221,498). Donor shares: 3.5% (464 of 13,449). Four thousand nine hundred twenty-four contributions from 464 donors describes repeat itemized rows, not 4,924 unique Pennsylvania owners.

Do not stack BUSINESS OWNER with OWNER, SELF EMPLOYED, and ENTREPRENEUR into a single Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs. 464 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,924 contributions, about 10.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 16.5 rows per donor nationally. The arithmetic mean gift in this Pennsylvania cell is about $459, against about $374 nationwide.

BUSINESS OWNER as a two-word label, not Owner

BUSINESS OWNER is a filer-entered string. OWNER as a one-word stamp, if used, sits in another hub. This join is BUSINESS OWNER only. The $82,755,159 national total is BUSINESS OWNER only. 13,449 donors produced 221,498 contributions in that occupation bucket. This page does not split those 221,498 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Pennsylvania (PA).

464 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,924 contributions totaling $2,258,495. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. The leftover $80,496,664 is Business Owner-coded money from every other state combined on this extract.

Four hundred sixty-four Pennsylvania Business Owner donors

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only BUSINESS OWNER. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania entity filing, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. The Business Owner occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds 97.3% of the $82,755,159.

Business Owner donations holds the $82,755,159 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.

Registries, Georgia as a sibling, and awards

This page does not treat Pennsylvania Business Owner dollars as a small-business registry or as SELF EMPLOYED. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESS OWNER is not a Pennsylvania business-registration file. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Do not add BUSINESS OWNER to SELF EMPLOYED for a combined Pennsylvania proprietor total.

Subtract the Pennsylvania dollars on this page from the national BUSINESS OWNER occupation total and the difference is $80,496,664 still coded BUSINESS OWNER in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. A unique-donor count of 464 is not a person-level audit. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join.

How to cite Business Owner × Pennsylvania

Quote Business Owner and Pennsylvania together with $2,258,495, 4,924 contributions, and 464 donors, then the national Business Owner book of $82,755,159 from 13,449 donors. Pennsylvania is 2.7% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence.

Business Owner donations without Pennsylvania still holds the remainder of the occupation total. Public records, two fields, one intersection. Do not add sibling occupation keys. Do not treat donor state as a claim that the money stayed inside Pennsylvania races. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards remain other government files.

Keep Business Owner and Pennsylvania together when quoting $2,258,495. Entity registries are not this FEC join.

Keep Business Owner and Pennsylvania together when quoting $2,258,495. Entity registries are not this FEC join.

Keep Business Owner and Pennsylvania together when quoting $2,258,495. Entity registries are not this FEC join.

Questions

How much have Business Owner donors in Pennsylvania contributed?
FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Business Owner and state Pennsylvania total $2,258,495, from 4,924 contributions and 464 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS OWNER-coded receipts are $82,755,159 from 221,498 contributions and 13,449 donors. Pennsylvania is 2.7% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov.
Does Business Owner include Self Employed in Pennsylvania?
Only if the filer typed BUSINESS OWNER. OWNER, SELF EMPLOYED, and ENTREPRENEUR are other strings if used. This join’s 464 Pennsylvania donors and $2,258,495 are the BUSINESS OWNER-and-PA overlap from 4,924 contributions. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov.
What share of Business Owner FEC money is from Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania holds 2.7% of the $82,755,159 occupation total ($2,258,495). Pennsylvania also accounts for 2.2% of contributions (4,924 of 221,498) and 3.5% of donors (464 of 13,449). BUSINESS OWNER is a filer-entered string. Unitemized gifts are omitted.
Is this money for Pennsylvania races only?
No. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,258,495 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. The 4,924 contributions and 464 donors are the BUSINESS OWNER-and-PA overlap only. FEC.gov is the source.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state. Occupation labels are filer-entered.