Laborer political contributions from Pennsylvania

LABORER × Pennsylvania

Occupation LABORER plus contributor state Pennsylvania equals $4,588,951. That is about 40% of $11,579,166 nationally. Pennsylvania’s 95,174 contributions are about 34% of 276,402. Its 2,136 donors are about 36% of 5,912. Dollar, receipt, and donor shares cluster in the mid-thirties to forty percent. The state is a major piece of this occupation string without being the entire series.

Average itemized gift in the Pennsylvania join is about $48 ($4,588,951 / 95,174). That low average plus 95,174 receipts is a volume pattern: many small itemized gifts, often repeated, rather than a few large checks. Construction worker, union member, and trade-specific titles are not merged in.

Ninety-five thousand one hundred seventy-four Pennsylvania LABORER gifts are about 34% of 276,402 nationally. Two thousand one hundred thirty-six of 5,912 donors is about 36%. Dollars ($4,588,951 of $11,579,166) are about 40%. New Jersey holds even more of the receipt pile. Each state join stays on its own filter.

LABORER nationwide

Five thousand nine hundred twelve donors used LABORER on itemized receipts totaling $11,579,166 across 276,402 gifts. Contribution count is very high relative to dollars, which is the signature of small repeat itemization. New Jersey has a separate LABORER join on the same national denominator; the two states can both be large without this page adding them together.

The non-Pennsylvania remainder is $11,579,166 minus $4,588,951. Laborer as a word is not exclusive to one state even when Pennsylvania holds a plurality of the money column.

Two thousand one hundred thirty-six Pennsylvania donors

Two thousand one hundred thirty-six Pennsylvania donors produced 95,174 LABORER-tagged contributions totaling $4,588,951. Receipts per donor are high. The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub places this title beside other PA occupations so a trades word is not treated as all Pennsylvania working-occupation giving.

The string does not identify a union, a contractor, or a trade. Someone who listed electrician or millwright is absent. Contributor state is the address on the receipt, not the job site.

Union affiliation is not a column here. Construction worker and trade-specific titles are other pages. Job site may be out of state while the address is PA. The 2,136 keys follow the receipt. The $4,588,951 is personal itemized giving, not a union PAC.

What a trades label does not prove

These figures are federal individual contributions, not union PAC spending and not Pennsylvania state campaign filings. The join does not say laborers as a class funded a ticket or that labor policy caused the gifts. Recipient committees are outside the filter.

Self-reported titles fragment skilled and unskilled work. Use the occupations index for neighboring trades strings and the ties index for LABORER in other states. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

See Laborer donations for the $11,579,166 national total, Pennsylvania campaign finance for all PA occupations, the occupations index for related titles, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state joins.

Two large LABORER states, two different averages

Pennsylvania LABORER at $4,588,951 from 2,136 donors and 95,174 gifts is about 40% of $11,579,166 nationally and about 34% of 276,402 contributions. Average gift about $48. New Jersey’s LABORER join is $3,948,993 from 2,290 donors and 124,390 gifts — more receipts, lower average (about $32), about 45% of occupation contributions. Same string, neighboring states, inverted volume-versus-dollar emphasis.

Do not add PA and NJ into a regional labor total on this page. Some questions are one-state questions. The national occupation already contains both. Adding state joins on top of $11,579,166 would double-count.

Two thousand one hundred thirty-six Pennsylvania donors, 95,174 gifts, $4,588,951, about 40% of $11,579,166. Average gift about $48. New Jersey’s LABORER join holds more of the occupation’s receipts at an even lower average. Neighboring states, same word, different volume mix. Do not add the joins on top of the national total. Do not treat either as a union roll.

Questions

How much have Pennsylvania laborer donors given in FEC filings?

Donors listing occupation LABORER with a Pennsylvania address reported $4,588,951 in itemized individual contributions, from 2,136 donors and 95,174 receipts. That is about 40% of the $11,579,166 recorded nationally under LABORER. The join is not a union membership count or a PAC total.

Why are there so many contributions for this dollar total?

Pennsylvania has 95,174 of 276,402 LABORER contributions and $4,588,951 of $11,579,166. Average itemized gift in the join is about $48. High receipt counts with small average size produce a volume-heavy cell. Repeat giving by 2,136 donors also inflates contribution counts relative to unique people.

Is this the same as union laborers?

Not as a legal category. FEC occupation is free text. LABORER nationally is $11,579,166 from 5,912 donors. This Pennsylvania join is $4,588,951 from 2,136 donors. Union affiliation, if present, lives on individual receipts or in separate committee filings, not in this aggregate.

Did these contributions go to Pennsylvania candidates?

The filter is donor state plus occupation, not recipient. A Pennsylvania-addressed LABORER can give to any FEC-registered committee. Mapping the $4,588,951 from 95,174 gifts to races requires committee-level receipts The packet totals for this join remain the occupation–state filter described above, with no extra dollar figures beyond those facts.