Contractor political contributions from Maryland

Contractor dollars that also carry Maryland

Headline number: $1,156,774. Contribution count: 3,588. Donor keys: 138. Occupation total: $30,356,058. Remainder outside Maryland: $29,199,284. Share of the occupation roll: 3.8%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Contractor in Maryland is not Contractor in every state and is not Maryland for every occupation. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. 138 donor keys and $1,156,774 exist only at the intersection. An occupation string does not mean the money funded federal contracts, and it does not mean the title caused the gifts.

CONTRACTOR is a short catch-all. Independent Contractor and General Contractor are other keys when those longer titles appear. Trade (electrical, HVAC, general) is unpublished. Independent expenditures are omitted. USAspending awards are a different statute. Quote $1,156,774 as itemized individual receipts tagged CONTRACTOR and MD.

Reading the Contractor occupation denominator

$30,356,058 is the Contractor occupation book in this extract — every state harvested for this string. Maryland contributes $1,156,774 (3.8%). The packet does not split the occupation total by party, and this page does not invent that split.

Contractor pages still include other states. The Maryland hub still includes other occupations. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Contractor and Maryland. Occupation is the string on the receipt, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics code and not a license class.

Donor state MD is an FEC field

FEC.gov stores donor state as a two-letter code. This extract uses MD for Maryland. Military and overseas codes, if present in the broader file, are other keys. This cell is MD only. $1,156,774 does not include a donor who listed a different state even if the occupation string matched.

Amended reports can recode a donor’s state. If a later overlay disagrees with $1,156,774, the live Maryland campaign finance page and the live Contractor donations page control. This JSON file is a snapshot of packet facts.

What 138 Contractor donors represent

138 is a donor-record count. $1,156,774 is a dollar sum. $8,382 is their ratio. None of those is a unique-person census of the occupation in Maryland. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $1,156,774: independent expenditures, non-individual PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables below the itemization threshold, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the occupation comparison: any occupation other than CONTRACTOR, except as context that sibling strings exist.

FEC receipts are not federal awards

USAspending publishes federal obligations by agency and place. FEC publishes campaign finance. $1,156,774 does not become an award total because a state appears in both systems. $30,356,058 does not become an award total because an occupation string can be compared with a NAICS title in a researcher’s head. This page never claims receipts funded federal awards.

Internal links remain the four packet hrefs only. No other path is cited. Independent expenditures remain outside the dollar columns used here. CONTRACTOR is a short catch-all. Independent Contractor and General Contractor are other keys when those longer titles appear. Trade (electrical, HVAC, general) is unpublished.

Why this page is not a Contractor directory

This page is not a directory of Contractor professionals in Maryland, not a membership list, and not a state contractor-license file, a NAICS construction census, or a prevailing-wage payroll. 138 is a donor-key count inside one FEC aggregate. Most people who use a similar job title never appear in $1,156,774.

The four packet links are the only hrefs used: Contractor donations, Maryland campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties. No other URL is cited. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Contractor, donor state Maryland (MD), $1,156,774 itemized, 3,588 contributions, 138 donors, 3.8% of $30,356,058. CONTRACTOR is a short catch-all. Independent Contractor and General Contractor are other keys when those longer titles appear. Trade (electrical, HVAC, general) is unpublished. General Contractor, Independent Contractor, Construction, and Subcontractor stay on other occupation pages. The Maryland campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

How many Contractor donors are in the Maryland cell?

138 donor keys sum to $1,156,774 on 3,588 contributions. That count is donor keys, not unique licensed workers. The arithmetic mean is about $8,382 per donor and $322 per contribution. Independent expenditures are not included. Named donors are not in these facts and are not invented here.

Is $30,356,058 the amount Contractor filers gave in Maryland?

No. $30,356,058 is the occupation total across harvested states. Contractor’s Maryland cell is $1,156,774. Other states hold $29,199,284. Use the occupation hub for the national figure and this tie page for the Maryland slice only. Source: FEC.gov.

Why does this page exist if occupation and state hubs already exist?

Because two tables meet. The occupation hub answers Contractor across states ($30,356,058). The state hub answers Maryland across occupations. This tie answers only Contractor inside Maryland: $1,156,774, 3,588 gifts, 138 donors. All FEC ties lists other such pairs.

What is omitted from $1,156,774?

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers as a separate table, USAspending awards, and receipts whose occupation string was not CONTRACTOR or whose donor state was not MD. Sibling titles such as General Contractor, Independent Contractor, Construction, and Subcontractor are other rows. Source: FEC.gov occupation-state aggregates.