Musician political contributions from California

The Musician–California intersection

Occupation MUSICIAN and donor state CA produce $3,416,864, 27,127 contributions, and 492 donors. The occupation hub is $15,245,521, 98,255 contributions, and 2,076 donors. California’s dollar share is about 22.4%; contribution share about 27.6% (27,127 of 98,255); donor share about 23.7% (492 of 2,076). Four hundred ninety-two California donors are about 23.7% of 2,076 national donors; 27,127 contributions are about 27.6% of 98,255 national rows; dollars are about 22.4% of $15,245,521.

ARTIST, SINGER, COMPOSER, and ENTERTAINER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Musician total. Do not stack MUSICIAN with ARTIST or SINGER into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

492 California donors produced 27,127 contributions, about 55.1 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 47.3 rows per donor nationally (98,255 contributions from 2,076 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $126, against about $155 nationwide. California’s about 22.4% dollar share and about 27.6% contribution share make this a large cell of the national MUSICIAN bucket, not a union extract.

MUSICIAN as a performance-title string

MUSICIAN is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a union card, a catalog, or a California employer. One word on the form is the filter. The $15,245,521 national total is MUSICIAN only. 2,076 donors produced 98,255 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 98,255 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Ninety-eight thousand two hundred fifty-five national contributions make MUSICIAN a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California on the state side

492 California donors produced 27,127 contributions totaling $3,416,864. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California studio, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,416,864.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only MUSICIAN. The Musician occupation hub without California still holds about 77.6% of the $15,245,521. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. MUSICIAN is only this filter.

What not to infer from Musician plus California

This page does not count working musicians, merge ARTIST dollars, or claim that Musician-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. MUSICIAN is not ARTIST even when one person used both titles. Photographer, Author, and Programmer in California are different occupation-state pairs.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. MUSICIAN is not a royalty or union extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Catalog and label names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Musician filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national MUSICIAN occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded MUSICIAN in every other state combined. That remainder ($11,828,657) 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 492 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 27,127 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,416,864 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the MUSICIAN national total, drops a key. Four hundred ninety-two donors producing 27,127 contributions totaling $3,416,864 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Musician donations holds the $15,245,521 national occupation total. California 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. ARTIST and SINGER are different occupation hubs if those strings exist.

Questions

How much have Musician donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation MUSICIAN and state California total $3,416,864, from 27,127 contributions and 492 donors. Nationwide, MUSICIAN-coded receipts are $15,245,521 from 98,255 contributions and 2,076 donors. California is about 22.4% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include California artists and singers?

No. This hub is the string MUSICIAN. ARTIST and SINGER are different occupation buckets if those strings exist. State is CA. Four hundred ninety-two donors produced 27,127 gifts. The 492 California donors used occupation MUSICIAN and state CA. Filers who wrote ARTIST or SINGER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Musician FEC money is from California?

About 22.4% of the $15,245,521 occupation total is in this California join ($3,416,864). California also accounts for about 27.6% of contributions (27,127 of 98,255) and about 23.7% of donors (492 of 2,076). About 22.4% of dollars from 492 of 2,076 donors and 27,127 of 98,255 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,416,864 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.