Contractor political contributions from California

Contractor and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation CONTRACTOR and donor state CA produce $5,309,258, 22,722 contributions, and 1,046 donors. The occupation hub is $30,356,058, 92,735 contributions, and 6,738 donors. The three shares are 17.5% of dollars, 24.5% of contributions, and 15.5% of donors. Keep all three; quoting only $5,309,258 drops the row and donor keys. California Contractor contribution rows outrun the dollar share on this join.

Contractor is a one-word trade-or-status stamp. Nearby strings — GENERAL CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION, BUILDER, and SUBCONTRACTOR — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $5,309,258 or $30,356,058. CONTRACTOR can mean a licensed builder or a 1099 status in another trade; the FEC field does not split those uses.

One thousand forty-six California donors produced 22,722 contributions, about 21.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.8 rows per donor nationally (92,735 contributions from 6,738 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $5,076, versus about $4,505 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

Contractor as a national occupation grouping

CONTRACTOR is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify a California contractor license number. The national grouping is 6,738 donors, 92,735 contributions, and $30,356,058.

92,735 contributions from 6,738 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 22,722 contributions from 1,046 donors is the CA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California.

California on the state side

One thousand forty-six California donors produced 22,722 contributions totaling $5,309,258. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California professional license, and not a limit to California candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only CONTRACTOR. Subtract $5,309,258 from $30,356,058 and $25,046,800 remains coded Contractor in every other state combined (70,013 contributions, 5,692 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the Contractor–California join is not

This page does not measure contractor output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Contractor-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a California CSLB license extract, not a public-works bid log, and not a union-local census.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state CA is not recipient geography.

Three numbers, two fields, one Contractor filter

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $5,309,258, 22,722 contributions, and 1,046 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Contractor national total, drops a key.

Contractor donations holds the $30,356,058 national occupation total. California 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. Nearby occupation strings remain separate keys.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. CONTRACTOR can mean a licensed builder or a 1099 status in another trade; the FEC field does not split those uses.

Related tables

Contractor donations holds the $30,356,058 national occupation total. California 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.

Questions

How much have Contractor donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Contractor and state California total $5,309,258, from 22,722 contributions and 1,046 donors. Nationwide, Contractor-coded receipts are $30,356,058 from 92,735 contributions and 6,738 donors. California is 17.5% of those dollars.

Are these licensed California contractors?

Occupation is CONTRACTOR and state is CA. The FEC file does not check CSLB licenses. General Contractor, Construction, and Builder are other strings. Independent contractors in unrelated trades may also type CONTRACTOR. This join reports 1,046 California donors and $5,309,258 in itemized receipts.

What share of Contractor FEC money is from California?

17.5% of the $30,356,058 occupation total is in this California join ($5,309,258). California also accounts for 24.5% of contributions (22,722 of 92,735) and 15.5% of donors (1,046 of 6,738). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $5,309,258 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.