Pharmacist political contributions from North Carolina

Why $745,098 is a join, not a hub restatement

LobbyVault keeps a Pharmacist occupation page and a North Carolina state page. Neither page is this join. The join is $745,098 from 3,123 contributions and 151 donors where occupation equals PHARMACIST and state equals NC. Against the occupation total of $19,178,714, that is 3.9%. Other states hold $18,433,616.

Do not treat 3.9% as Pharmacist workers’ share of all North Carolina receipts. The state hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 151 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in North Carolina. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

Donor state NC is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a North Carolina professional license, and not a limit to North Carolina candidates. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

What $19,178,714 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, Pharmacist indexes $19,178,714 of itemized individual receipts across harvested geography. $745,098 is already inside that total; adding $745,098 to $19,178,714 would double-count the North Carolina slice. Pharmacist occupation pages still mix North Carolina with every other state.

PHARMACIST is a license-style string. Pharmacy and Pharm D are other keys. FEC.gov does not verify a state pharmacy license or a practice setting. Keep the exact string on the citation so Pharmacist is not merged with a sibling title. Pharmacy, Pharm D, Pharmacy Owner, and Pharmacist Retired are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a state filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Pharmacist in North Carolina.

What the North Carolina hub still mixes

North Carolina campaign finance still holds teachers, retirees, attorneys, and every other occupation string that used NC. Adding those dollars to $745,098 would destroy the occupation filter. Subtracting $745,098 from an unpublished statewide total is also out of scope: this packet does not include a North Carolina all-occupation dollar figure.

What this page does include on the state side: 3,123 contributions, 151 donors, $745,098. Those three numbers share the occupation filter PHARMACIST. Without that filter they are not this join.

Donor keys, lines, and means for Pharmacist in North Carolina

3,123 contributions totaling $745,098 is the operational definition of the North Carolina side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 151. About 20.7 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $239 per line and $4,934 per donor should never be quoted as a typical Pharmacist gift in North Carolina. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 151 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $745,098 from 3,123 contributions and 151 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. Pharmacist × North Carolina is a database join.

Researchers should keep PHARMACIST as the stored occupation string and NC as the donor-state tag. PHARMACIST is a license-style string. Pharmacy and Pharm D are other keys. FEC.gov does not verify a state pharmacy license or a practice setting. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Pharmacist next to other North Carolina occupation strings

Other occupation strings in North Carolina live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $745,098. Pharmacy, Pharm D, Pharmacy Owner, and Pharmacist Retired are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-state cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 151 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Pharmacist, donor state North Carolina (NC), $745,098 itemized, 3,123 contributions, 151 donors, 3.9% of $19,178,714. PHARMACIST is a license-style string. Pharmacy and Pharm D are other keys. FEC.gov does not verify a state pharmacy license or a practice setting. Pharmacy, Pharm D, Pharmacy Owner, and Pharmacist Retired stay on other occupation pages. The North Carolina campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

What is the North Carolina Pharmacist contribution total?

$745,098 from 3,123 itemized contributions and 151 donor keys whose occupation grouped to PHARMACIST and whose donor state grouped to NC. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $19,178,714. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of Pharmacist occupation receipts is North Carolina?

3.9%. That is $745,098 divided by $19,178,714. The complement is $18,433,616 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 3.2%; donor share is 3.4%.

Does occupation PHARMACIST mean the donors were licensed in North Carolina?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. PHARMACIST is a license-style string. Pharmacy and Pharm D are other keys. FEC.gov does not verify a state pharmacy license or a practice setting. 151 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $745,098 on 3,123 lines.

Where are the live Pharmacist and North Carolina tables?

Pharmacist donations carries the $19,178,714 occupation total. North Carolina campaign finance places Pharmacist beside other occupation strings in that state. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Pharmacist × North Carolina intersection only.