Instructor political contributions from Wisconsin

Instructor and Wisconsin as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation INSTRUCTOR and donor state WI produce $291,765, 2,263 contributions, and 80 donors. The occupation hub is $5,514,850, 46,555 contributions, and 1,277 donors. Wisconsin’s dollar share is about 5.3%; contribution share about 4.9% (2,263 of 46,555); donor share about 6.3% (80 of 1,277). The three shares sit near 5–6%. Eighty people produced about 28 itemized rows per donor totaling $291,765 inside a 46,555-row occupation.

PROFESSOR, TEACHER, and ADJUNCT, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this total. Do not stack INSTRUCTOR with PROFESSOR or TEACHER into a single Wisconsin professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

80 Wisconsin donors produced 2,263 contributions, about 28.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 36.5 rows per donor nationally (46,555 contributions from 1,277 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Wisconsin cell is about $129, against about $118 nationwide. Wisconsin’s about 5.3% share of $5,514,850 is a high-frequency slice that tracks the national mix rather than a handful of large checks.

INSTRUCTOR as a teaching-title string

INSTRUCTOR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not say whether the title was K-12, college, fitness, or flight school. The $5,514,850 national total is INSTRUCTOR only. 1,277 donors produced 46,555 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 46,555 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Wisconsin (WI). Forty-six thousand five hundred fifty-five national contributions make INSTRUCTOR a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state WI.

Wisconsin on the state side

80 Wisconsin donors produced 2,263 contributions totaling $291,765. Donor state WI is the address on the record, not proof of a Wisconsin license, and not a limit to Wisconsin candidates. WI is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Wisconsin teaching license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $291,765.

The Wisconsin campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WI. This join is only INSTRUCTOR. The Instructor occupation hub without Wisconsin still holds about 94.7% of the $5,514,850. Wisconsin’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to WI. INSTRUCTOR is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count faculty, merge professor strings, or claim that Instructor-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. INSTRUCTOR is not PROFESSOR even when a filer meant a college role.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. INSTRUCTOR is not a DPI or campus extract. Donor state WI is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Campus names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Instructor filter

Subtract the Wisconsin dollars on this page from the national INSTRUCTOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded INSTRUCTOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($5,223,085) 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 80 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 2,263 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $291,765 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Wisconsin dollars, or only the INSTRUCTOR national total, drops a key. Eighty donors producing 2,263 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $291,765 headline.

Related tables

Instructor donations holds the $5,514,850 national occupation total. Wisconsin 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. PROFESSOR and TEACHER are different occupation hubs if those strings exist.

Questions

How much have Instructor donors in Wisconsin given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation INSTRUCTOR and state Wisconsin total $291,765, from 2,263 contributions and 80 donors. Nationwide, INSTRUCTOR-coded receipts are $5,514,850 from 46,555 contributions and 1,277 donors. Wisconsin is about 5.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these Wisconsin professors?

No. This hub is the string INSTRUCTOR. PROFESSOR and TEACHER sit in other occupation buckets if those strings exist. State is WI. The 80 Wisconsin donors used occupation INSTRUCTOR and state WI. Filers who wrote PROFESSOR or TEACHER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Instructor FEC money is from Wisconsin?

About 5.3% of the $5,514,850 occupation total is in this Wisconsin join ($291,765). Wisconsin also accounts for about 4.9% of contributions (2,263 of 46,555) and about 6.3% of donors (80 of 1,277). Donor share (about 6.3%) runs slightly ahead of dollar share (about 5.3%).

Does this money go to Wisconsin candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Wisconsin. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $291,765 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to WI; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.