Musician occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Musician as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation MUSICIAN and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,036,752, 1,140 contributions, and 471 donors. MUSICIAN in 2008 is a performing-arts title on itemized receipts. FEC.gov does not verify recording credits. The occupation hub is $15,245,521 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 6.8% ($1,036,752 of $15,245,521). The remainder, $14,208,769, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Hundreds of donor keys and more than a thousand lines is a mid-scale arts-title cell in a presidential year. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,036,752.

The MUSICIAN string across every cycle on file

$15,245,521 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. Artist, Composer, and Entertainer are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $15,245,521 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Musician donations for the $15,245,521 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

471 donors and a four-figure mean gift

Dividing $1,036,752 by 1,140 contributions yields about $909 per gift. Dividing by 471 donors yields about $2,201 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.4 (1,140 ÷ 471). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

471 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 471 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell. Composer and Entertainer remain other keys. Combining them with MUSICIAN would be a researcher recode, not this table.

What Musician dollars in 2008 are not

A 6.8% share of Musician-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $1,036,752 as itemized individual receipts tagged MUSICIAN in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Musician × 2008

A complete claim names Musician and 2008, then $1,036,752, 1,140 contributions, 471 donors, and 6.8% of $15,245,521, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 471 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Musician and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $909 and mean per donor $2,201 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Artist as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $14,208,769 outside 2008. Most of the $15,245,521 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Artist, Composer, and Entertainer are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of MUSICIAN on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.4. That ratio is 1,140 divided by 471, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Musician-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $1,036,752 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Musician in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 1,140 contributions and 471 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $15,245,521, so 2008 is 6.8% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every musician who donated in 2008?

No. The 471 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to MUSICIAN in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $1,036,752 on 1,140 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Musician occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

6.8%: $1,036,752 of $15,245,521. The remaining $14,208,769 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $1,036,752 divided by $15,245,521, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Musician and 2008 tables?

Musician donations carries the $15,245,521 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Musician beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Musician × 2008 intersection only.