Lawyer political contributions from Massachusetts

Lawyer and Massachusetts as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation LAWYER and donor state MA produce $3,945,909, 13,599 contributions, and 668 donors. The occupation hub is $105,321,940, 362,611 contributions, and 19,031 donors. Massachusetts’s dollar share is about 3.7%; contribution share about 3.8% (13,599 of 362,611); donor share about 3.5% (668 of 19,031). Six hundred sixty-eight Massachusetts donors are about 3.5% of 19,031 national donors; 13,599 contributions are about 3.8% of 362,611 national rows; dollars are about 3.7% of $105,321,940.

ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, and LAWYER/ATTORNEY, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Lawyer total. Do not stack LAWYER with ATTORNEY or ATTORNEY AT LAW into a single Massachusetts professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

668 Massachusetts donors produced 13,599 contributions, about 20.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 19.1 rows per donor nationally (362,611 contributions from 19,031 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Massachusetts cell is about $290, against about $290 nationwide. Massachusetts’s about 3.7% share of $105,321,940 tracks the national mix rather than concentrating dollars in a handful of people.

LAWYER as a common professional string

LAWYER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Massachusetts bar number, a firm, or a practice area. One word on the form is the filter. The $105,321,940 national total is LAWYER only. 19,031 donors produced 362,611 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 362,611 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Massachusetts (MA). Three hundred sixty-two thousand six hundred eleven national contributions make LAWYER a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MA.

Massachusetts on the state side

668 Massachusetts donors produced 13,599 contributions totaling $3,945,909. Donor state MA is the address on the record, not proof of a Massachusetts license, and not a limit to Massachusetts candidates. MA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Massachusetts license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,945,909.

The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MA. This join is only LAWYER. The Lawyer occupation hub without Massachusetts still holds about 96.3% of the $105,321,940. Massachusetts’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MA. LAWYER is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count licensed attorneys, merge ATTORNEY dollars, or claim that Lawyer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. LAWYER is not ATTORNEY even when filers meant the same profession. Do not stack sibling titles into a single Massachusetts professional total.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. LAWYER is not a Massachusetts bar extract. Donor state MA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Bar numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Lawyer filter

Subtract the Massachusetts dollars on this page from the national LAWYER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded LAWYER in every other state combined. That remainder ($101,376,031) 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 668 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 13,599 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,945,909 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Massachusetts dollars, or only the LAWYER national total, drops a key. Six hundred sixty-eight donors producing 13,599 contributions totaling $3,945,909 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Lawyer donations holds the $105,321,940 national occupation total. Massachusetts 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. ATTORNEY is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Lawyer donors in Massachusetts given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation LAWYER and state Massachusetts total $3,945,909, from 13,599 contributions and 668 donors. Nationwide, LAWYER-coded receipts are $105,321,940 from 362,611 contributions and 19,031 donors. Massachusetts is about 3.7% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Massachusetts lawyers?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is the string LAWYER and state is MA. Filers who wrote ATTORNEY may sit in another bucket. Six hundred sixty-eight donors are not a bar roster. The 668 Massachusetts donors used occupation LAWYER and state MA. Filers who wrote ATTORNEY or ATTORNEY AT LAW may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Lawyer FEC money is from Massachusetts?

About 3.7% of the $105,321,940 occupation total is in this Massachusetts join ($3,945,909). Massachusetts also accounts for about 3.8% of contributions (13,599 of 362,611) and about 3.5% of donors (668 of 19,031). About 3.7% of dollars from 668 of 19,031 donors and 13,599 of 362,611 contributions.

Does this money go to Massachusetts candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Massachusetts. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,945,909 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.