Musician political contributions from Minnesota

Musician and Minnesota as a high-row arts join

45 Minnesota donors produced 2,007 contributions totaling $193,904. That is 1.3% of the $15,245,521 Musician occupation total. Correlation is not causation: occupation does not cause the gifts, and Minnesota as donor state does not cause recipient geography.

Rows per donor in the Minnesota cell average 44.6, versus about 47.3 nationally for MUSICIAN. Repeat itemization can lift the contribution count without lifting unique donors. Unitemized gifts under the FEC itemization threshold never enter either total.

This relationship is a bookkeeping join on two fields from FEC.gov. It is not a union membership roll, a performing-rights census, or a concert-gross table. Minnesota does not certify 'musician' as a license class in this FEC extract.

MUSICIAN as a common occupation string

Filers typed MUSICIAN. The FEC does not rewrite that text into a standard occupational taxonomy. Minnesota does not certify 'musician' as a license class in this FEC extract. Nationwide, 2,076 donors produced 98,255 contributions totaling $15,245,521.

Keep Musician on its own Minnesota page. Mixing it with a sibling string would double-count some people and miss others, and this packet has no counts for those other strings. The Minnesota cell is only the MUSICIAN × MN overlap: $193,904, 2,007 contributions, 45 donors.

Forty-five Minnesota Musician donors

Mean Minnesota Musician itemized dollars per donor are $4,309, versus $7,344 nationally for the occupation. That gap is a ratio of packet totals, not a finding about Minnesota wages or Musician compensation.

Forty-five Minnesota donors produced 2,007 itemized rows — a high-repeat cell against 98,255 national Musician rows. Unique-donor counts can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Treat 45 as an aggregate, not a person-level audit.

Repeat itemization is not a touring census

Minnesota does not certify 'musician' as a license class in this FEC extract. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other FEC tables. They are not added into $193,904. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not name committees or donors.

Read the three Minnesota counts as one cell: $193,904 dollars, 2,007 contributions, 45 donors. Read the three national Musician counts as the other: $15,245,521, 98,255, 2,076. Percentages (1.3% of dollars, 2.0% of rows, 2.2% of donors) are ratios of those six integers. No election cycle is named in these aggregates, so the totals are the LobbyVault FEC extract window rather than a single even-year cycle. Forty-five Minnesota donors produced 2,007 itemized rows — a high-repeat cell against 98,255 national Musician rows.

Musician-coded dollars outside Minnesota

Subtract the Minnesota dollars on this page from the national Musician occupation total and the difference is $15,051,617 still coded Musician in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. Musician donations holds the unlabeled-by-state total; Minnesota campaign finance holds every occupation with this state code; all occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Minnesota dollars, or only the Musician national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. High-repeat arts overlap is the unit: MUSICIAN × MN = $193,904.

Related tables for Musician and Minnesota

Musician donations holds the $15,245,521 national occupation total and the 2,076-donor count. Minnesota campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to MN. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections. None of those hubs is a substitute for quoting $193,904, 2,007 contributions, and 45 donors together.

Questions

How much have Musician donors in Minnesota contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Musician and state Minnesota total $193,904, from 2,007 contributions and 45 donors. Nationwide, Musician-coded receipts are $15,245,521 from 98,255 contributions and 2,076 donors. Minnesota is 1.3% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Are these union musicians or licensed performers?

The FEC file does not verify licenses or registrations. Occupation is MUSICIAN and state is MN. The 45 Minnesota donors produced $193,904 across 2,007 contributions. Minnesota does not certify 'musician' as a license class in this FEC extract. This is not a union membership roll, a performing-rights census, or a concert-gross table.

Why are there 2,007 Minnesota Musician contributions from 45 donors?

Minnesota holds 1.3% of the $15,245,521 occupation total ($193,904). Minnesota also accounts for 2.0% of contributions (2,007 of 98,255) and 2.2% of donors (45 of 2,076). MUSICIAN is a filer-entered string. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Sibling labels are other hubs.

Do Minnesota Musician gifts stay inside Minnesota races?

No. Donor state is Minnesota. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $193,904 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. The 2,007 contributions and 45 donors are the MUSICIAN-and-MN overlap only. FEC.gov is the source.