CPA political contributions from Pennsylvania

The CPA–Pennsylvania intersection

Occupation CPA and donor state PA produce $1,283,882, 4,352 contributions, and 374 donors. The occupation hub is $44,519,078, 167,600 contributions, and 10,766 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 2.9%; contribution share about 2.6% (4,352 of 167,600); donor share about 3.5% (374 of 10,766). Three hundred seventy-four Pennsylvania donors are 3.5% of 10,766 national CPA donors. Dollars ($1,283,882 of $44,519,078) are about 2.9%; contributions (4,352 of 167,600) about 2.6%.

ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, and AUDITOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack CPA with ACCOUNTANT or AUDITOR into a single Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

374 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,352 contributions, about 11.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 15.6 rows per donor nationally (167,600 contributions from 10,766 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Pennsylvania cell is about $295, against about $266 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s mean gift is about $295, near the national CPA mean of about $266. Donor share (3.5%) slightly outruns dollar share (2.9%).

CPA receipts with a Pennsylvania address

CPA is a filer-entered string. The file does not confirm an active Pennsylvania CPA license. The three-letter string plus PA is the filter. The $44,519,078 national total is CPA only. 10,766 donors produced 167,600 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 167,600 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Pennsylvania (PA). This page locates the Pennsylvania overlap. It does not merge CPA with the Pennsylvania Accountant cell in this extract.

Pennsylvania as donor state

374 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,352 contributions totaling $1,283,882. 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 license and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the rest of the state share the same code.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only CPA. The CPA occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 97.1% of the $44,519,078. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every occupation coded to PA. CPA is only this filter.

What not to infer from CPA plus Pennsylvania

This page does not merge Accountant dollars, count licensed CPAs, or claim that CPA-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CPA is not ACCOUNTANT. Those two Pennsylvania cells stay separate if both exist in this extract.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CPA is not a Pennsylvania State Board of Accountancy extract. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one CPA filter

Subtract the Pennsylvania dollars on this page from the national CPA occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CPA in every other state combined. That remainder ($43,235,196) 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 374 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 4,352 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,283,882 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 CPA national total, drops a key. Three hundred seventy-four donors producing 4,352 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,283,882 headline.

Related tables

Cpa donations holds the $44,519,078 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. The Pennsylvania Accountant occupation-state tie is a different packet and is not added here.

Questions

How much have CPA donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CPA and state Pennsylvania total $1,283,882, from 4,352 contributions and 374 donors. Nationwide, CPA-coded receipts are $44,519,078 from 167,600 contributions and 10,766 donors. Pennsylvania is about 2.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is CPA the same as Accountant in Pennsylvania FEC data?

No. CPA and ACCOUNTANT are different stored strings. This join is CPA and state PA only. Three hundred seventy-four Pennsylvania donors used that pair. The 374 Pennsylvania donors used occupation CPA and state PA. Filers who wrote ACCOUNTANT or CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of CPA FEC money is from Pennsylvania?

About 2.9% of the $44,519,078 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($1,283,882). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 2.6% of contributions (4,352 of 167,600) and about 3.5% of donors (374 of 10,766). About 2.9% of dollars from 374 of 10,766 donors and 4,352 of 167,600 contributions.

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 $1,283,882 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.