Alabama donors listing occupation General Contractor

Why General Contractor and Alabama share one page

LobbyVault keeps a General Contractor occupation page and a Alabama campaign-finance page. Neither page is this join. The join is $250,633 from 290 contributions and 51 donors where occupation equals GENERAL CONTRACTOR and state equals AL. Against the occupation total of $8,993,979, that is 2.8%. Other states hold $8,743,346. Alabama’s General Contractor cell is the two-word construction title, distinct from BUILDER; 51 Alabama keys are not a state contractor-license extract.

Do not treat 2.8% as General Contractor workers’ share of all Alabama receipts. The state hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 51 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in Alabama. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

What $8,993,979 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, General Contractor indexes $8,993,979 of itemized individual receipts across 2,103 donors. $250,633 is already inside that total; adding $250,633 to $8,993,979 would double-count the Alabama slice. General Contractor occupation pages still mix Alabama with every other state.

GENERAL CONTRACTOR is the two-word string. Builder and Contractor alone are other occupation keys. Licensure and bonding are not verified on FEC forms. Keep the exact string on the citation so General Contractor is not merged with a sibling title. Contractor, Builder, Construction, and GC are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a state filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically General Contractor in Alabama.

Donor keys, lines, and means for General Contractor in Alabama

290 contributions totaling $250,633 is the operational definition of the Alabama side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 51. About 5.7 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $864 per line and $4,914 per donor should never be quoted as a typical General Contractor gift in Alabama. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 51 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

The Alabama hub is not this cell

AL on the record is a mailing-state code. Inside it, General Contractor shows 290 contributions totaling $250,633 from 51 donors. Occupation mean about $4,914 per donor uses only those facts. That ratio is not household income and not a unique-person average.

The Alabama campaign-finance hub mixes General Contractor with every other occupation string. This page does not. If a citation needs General Contractor in Alabama, use this tie. If a citation needs all of Alabama across occupations, use the state hub. If a citation needs all of General Contractor across states, use the occupation hub. Three different denominators.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $250,633 from 290 contributions and 51 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. General Contractor × Alabama is a database join.

Researchers should keep GENERAL CONTRACTOR as the stored occupation string and AL as the donor-state tag. GENERAL CONTRACTOR is the two-word string. Builder and Contractor alone are other occupation keys. Licensure and bonding are not verified on FEC forms. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Coverage limits on the General Contractor × Alabama cell

Coverage is itemized individual contributions with occupation GENERAL CONTRACTOR and donor state AL. $250,633, 290 lines, 51 keys. The occupation total $8,993,979 uses the same string without the state filter. Anything else a reader might want — party, committee, employer, city — is not in this packet.

AL is a mailing-state code. That fact locates the contributor address on the record. It does not explain motives. See General Contractor donations, Alabama campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties for adjacent tables. Source: FEC.gov.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation General Contractor, donor state Alabama (AL), $250,633 itemized, 290 contributions, 51 donors, 2.8% of $8,993,979 from 2,103 national donors. GENERAL CONTRACTOR is the two-word string. Builder and Contractor alone are other occupation keys. Licensure and bonding are not verified on FEC forms. Contractor, Builder, Construction, and GC stay on other occupation pages. The Alabama campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Open /occupations/general-contractor/ (General Contractor donations) for the occupation hub, /states/AL/ (Alabama campaign finance) for the state hub, /occupations/ (All occupations) for neighboring titles, and /ties/ (All FEC ties) for other occupation-state joins.

Questions

What is the Alabama General Contractor contribution total?

$250,633 from 290 itemized contributions and 51 donor keys whose occupation grouped to GENERAL CONTRACTOR and whose state grouped to AL. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $8,993,979. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of General Contractor occupation receipts is Alabama?

2.8%. That is $250,633 divided by $8,993,979. The complement is $8,743,346 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 1.1% (290 of 25,458).

Does occupation GENERAL CONTRACTOR mean the donors were licensed?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. GENERAL CONTRACTOR is the two-word string. Builder and Contractor alone are other occupation keys. Licensure and bonding are not verified on FEC forms. 51 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $250,633 on 290 lines.

Do these Alabama donations fund federal spending?

No. $250,633 is FEC itemized individual contributions tagged General Contractor and donor state Alabama. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This join does not claim donations funded contracts or grants. Independent expenditures are also outside $250,633. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Donor state is the address on the itemized record.