Designer political contributions from Washington

The Designer–Washington intersection

Occupation DESIGNER and donor state WA produce $656,638, 4,303 contributions, and 140 donors. The occupation hub is $18,568,646, 112,150 contributions, and 3,473 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 3.5%; contribution share about 3.8% (4,303 of 112,150); donor share about 4.0% (140 of 3,473). One hundred forty Washington donors sit inside 3,473 national DESIGNER donors. Contribution volume (4,303 of 112,150) is a high-frequency slice of a large creative occupation.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER, UX DESIGNER, and INTERIOR DESIGNER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack DESIGNER with GRAPHIC DESIGNER or UX DESIGNER into a single Washington professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

140 Washington donors produced 4,303 contributions, about 30.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 32.3 rows per donor nationally (112,150 contributions from 3,473 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Washington cell is about $153, against about $166 nationwide. Washington’s $656,638 is address-coded itemized money, not a Seattle tech-design census. WA is the state code, not the District of Columbia.

DESIGNER as a catch-all creative title

DESIGNER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not identify a medium, a tool, or an employer. The $18,568,646 national total is DESIGNER only. 3,473 donors produced 112,150 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 112,150 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Washington (WA). One hundred twelve thousand one hundred fifty national contributions make DESIGNER a high-volume bucket. This tie locates the Washington overlap.

Washington as donor state

140 Washington donors produced 4,303 contributions totaling $656,638. 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. Seattle and the rest of the state share one key. One hundred forty unique donors is not a studio directory.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only DESIGNER. The Designer occupation hub without Washington still holds about 96.5% of the $18,568,646. Washington’s state hub includes every occupation coded to WA. DESIGNER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Designer plus Washington

This page does not count studios, rank tech employers, or claim that Designer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DESIGNER is not GRAPHIC DESIGNER even when filers meant a specific craft.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DESIGNER is not a design-guild extract. Donor state WA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Designer filter

Subtract the Washington dollars on this page from the national DESIGNER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded DESIGNER in every other state combined. That remainder ($17,912,008) 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 140 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 4,303 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $656,638 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 DESIGNER national total, drops a key. One hundred forty donors producing 4,303 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $656,638 headline.

Related tables

Designer donations holds the $18,568,646 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. PROJECT MANAGER is a different Washington occupation tie in this slice.

Questions

How much have Designer donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DESIGNER and state Washington total $656,638, from 4,303 contributions and 140 donors. Nationwide, DESIGNER-coded receipts are $18,568,646 from 112,150 contributions and 3,473 donors. Washington is about 3.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Designer mean UX or graphic design?

The file does not say. DESIGNER is the string on the form. One hundred forty Washington (WA) donors used that label. Longer titles sit in other buckets if filers used them. The 140 Washington donors used occupation DESIGNER and state WA. Filers who wrote GRAPHIC DESIGNER or INTERIOR DESIGNER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Designer FEC money is from Washington?

About 3.5% of the $18,568,646 occupation total is in this Washington join ($656,638). Washington also accounts for about 3.8% of contributions (4,303 of 112,150) and about 4.0% of donors (140 of 3,473). WA is the state code, not the District of Columbia.

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 $656,638 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.