CPA political contributions from Washington

CPA and Washington as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation CPA and donor state WA produce $1,446,546, 7,082 contributions, and 312 donors. The occupation hub is $44,519,078, 167,600 contributions, and 10,766 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 3.2%; contribution share about 4.2% (7,082 of 167,600); donor share about 2.9% (312 of 10,766). Three hundred twelve Washington donors are about 2.9% of 10,766 national donors; 7,082 contributions are about 4.2% of 167,600 national rows; dollars are about 3.2% of $44,519,078.

ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, and CONTROLLER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this CPA total. Do not stack CPA with ACCOUNTANT or CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT into a single Washington professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

312 Washington donors produced 7,082 contributions, about 22.7 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 Washington cell is about $204, against about $266 nationwide. Washington’s about 3.2% dollar share from 7,082 rows is a high-repeat professional slice, not a license-board census.

CPA as an acronym occupation string

CPA is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Washington CPA license, a firm, or an employer. Three letters on the form are 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 Washington (WA). Ten thousand seven hundred sixty-six national donors make CPA a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state WA.

Washington as the donor-state code

312 Washington donors produced 7,082 contributions totaling $1,446,546. Donor state WA is the address on the record, not proof of a Washington license, and not a limit to Washington candidates. WA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Washington license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,446,546.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only CPA. The CPA occupation hub without Washington still holds about 96.8% of the $44,519,078. Washington’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to WA. CPA is only this filter.

What the CPA–Washington join is not

This page does not count licensed CPAs, merge accountant dollars, 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 even when filers meant the same practice.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one CPA filter

Subtract the Washington 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 ($43,072,532) 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 312 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 7,082 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,446,546 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Washington dollars, or only the CPA national total, drops a key. Three hundred twelve donors producing 7,082 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,446,546 headline.

Related tables

Cpa donations holds the $44,519,078 national occupation total. Washington 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. New Jersey has an Accountant occupation-state tie in this slice; that is a different occupation string.

Questions

How much have CPA donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CPA and state Washington total $1,446,546, from 7,082 contributions and 312 donors. Nationwide, CPA-coded receipts are $44,519,078 from 167,600 contributions and 10,766 donors. Washington is about 3.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Washington CPAs?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is CPA and state is WA. Filers who wrote ACCOUNTANT may sit in a different occupation bucket. Three hundred twelve Washington donors used CPA. The 312 Washington donors used occupation CPA and state WA. Filers who wrote ACCOUNTANT or CONTROLLER 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 Washington?

About 3.2% of the $44,519,078 occupation total is in this Washington join ($1,446,546). Washington also accounts for about 4.2% of contributions (7,082 of 167,600) and about 2.9% of donors (312 of 10,766). About 3.2% of dollars from 312 of 10,766 donors and 7,082 of 167,600 contributions.

Does this money go to Washington candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,446,546 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to WA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.