Contractor political contributions from Pennsylvania

$972,198 at the occupation-state overlay

Cycle-free geography: donor state PA and Contractor (CONTRACTOR) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop Contractor and you are citing the Pennsylvania hub across every occupation. Drop Pennsylvania and you are citing an occupation hub that still mixes every other state. Keep both and the number is $972,198 from 4,402 contributions and 244 donors.

3.2% names $972,198 as a share of $30,356,058. It does not name a share of Pennsylvania statewide receipts, a share of licensed workers, or a share of itemized giving by every nearby title. Those denominators are absent. $29,383,860 is the complement inside the same occupation string, other states only.

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 Trade (electrical, HVAC, general) is unpublished. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Not a claim about federal spending.

Contractor is a filer-entered label

FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses CONTRACTOR. General Contractor, Independent Contractor, Construction, and Subcontractor are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a state contractor-license file, a NAICS construction census, or a prevailing-wage payroll. Cite $972,198 for this title in Pennsylvania on 4,402 receipts from 244 donors.

The occupation hub still holds $29,383,860 outside Pennsylvania. Most of the $30,356,058 roll is not this state’s cell if 3.2% is a modest slice — or a large slice if the state dominates. Either way, quote the share with both dollars.

Pennsylvania campaign finance versus this Contractor filter

Pennsylvania as used here is donor geography on itemized individual receipts. It is not a Secretary of State campaign-finance extract and not a state PAC database. Federal itemized individual contributions are the coverage. State-only filings never enter $972,198.

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 Trade (electrical, HVAC, general) is unpublished. Keep Pennsylvania in the same sentence as Contractor when citing $972,198. Dropping the occupation noun turns the figure into an unpublished statewide total.

18.0 gifts per donor is arithmetic, not turnout

18.0 gifts per donor is 4,402 divided by 244. That ratio is not a measure of civic engagement and not a turnout figure. It is a line-to-key quotient inside one occupation-state cell. Quote it with both integers.

244 donor keys totaling $972,198 is not a ranking of Contractor against other occupations in Pennsylvania. This join has one occupation and one state. Neighboring occ-state pages are other keys.

Coverage limits on the Contractor × Pennsylvania cell

Coverage is itemized individual contributions with occupation CONTRACTOR and donor state PA. $972,198, 4,402 lines, 244 keys. The occupation total $30,356,058 uses the same string without the state filter. Anything else a reader might want — party, committee, employer, city — is not in this packet.

Donor state is an address code. That fact locates the money on the disclosure form. It does not explain motives. See Contractor donations, Pennsylvania campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties for adjacent tables. Source: FEC.gov.

Amended reports and live hubs

Individual reports amend. A later extract can raise or lower $972,198 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live Contractor hub and the live Pennsylvania hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $972,198, 4,402, 244, $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. Sibling occupation-state pages for other states or other titles are other slugs. Do not reuse $972,198 on those pages.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Contractor, donor state Pennsylvania (PA), $972,198 itemized, 4,402 contributions, 244 donors, 3.2% 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 Pennsylvania campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $972,198: treat it as payroll, treat 244 as a workforce census, treat 3.2% as a share of Pennsylvania statewide receipts, or treat the cell as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links. Mean about $221 per contribution and $3,984 per donor remain attached to 4,402 and 244. About 18.0 lines per donor remains 4,402 divided by 244.

Questions

What is the Pennsylvania Contractor contribution total?

$972,198 from 4,402 itemized contributions and 244 donor keys whose occupation grouped to CONTRACTOR and whose donor state grouped to PA. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $30,356,058. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of Contractor occupation receipts is Pennsylvania?

3.2%. That is $972,198 divided by $30,356,058. The complement is $29,383,860 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 4.7%; donor share is 3.6%.

Does occupation CONTRACTOR mean the donors were licensed in Pennsylvania?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. 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. 244 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $972,198 on 4,402 lines.

Where are the live Contractor and Pennsylvania tables?

Contractor donations carries the $30,356,058 occupation total. Pennsylvania campaign finance places Contractor beside other occupation strings in that state. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Contractor × Pennsylvania intersection only.