Photographer political contributions from Washington

Photographer and Washington as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PHOTOGRAPHER and donor state WA produce $667,455, 1,559 contributions, and 54 donors. The occupation hub is $14,417,201, 64,876 contributions, and 1,809 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 4.6%; contribution share about 2.4% (1,559 of 64,876); donor share about 3.0% (54 of 1,809). Fewer of the national contributions than of the dollars sit in Washington. That is a larger-mean slice relative to a 64,876-row occupation.

Fifty-four Washington donors produced 1,559 contributions, about 29 rows per donor. FILMMAKER and VIDEOGRAPHER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack PHOTOGRAPHER with FILMMAKER or VIDEOGRAPHER into a single Washington professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

54 Washington donors produced 1,559 contributions, about 28.9 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.9 rows per donor nationally (64,876 contributions from 1,809 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Washington cell is about $428, against about $222 nationwide. Washington’s about 4.6% dollar share with about 3.0% of donors is a heavier-dollar slice of a high-volume occupation label.

PHOTOGRAPHER as a high-volume occupation label

PHOTOGRAPHER is a filer-entered string. PHOTO JOURNALIST, CAMERA OPERATOR, and ARTIST, if used, sit in other hubs. The $14,417,201 national total is PHOTOGRAPHER only. 1,809 donors produced 64,876 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 64,876 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Washington (WA). Sixty-four thousand eight hundred seventy-six national contributions make PHOTOGRAPHER a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state WA.

Washington on the state side

54 Washington donors produced 1,559 contributions totaling $667,455. Donor state WA is the address on the record, not proof of a Washington license, and not a limit to Washington candidates. WA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Washington business license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $667,455.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only PHOTOGRAPHER. The Photographer occupation hub without Washington still holds about 95.4% of the $14,417,201. Washington’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to WA. PHOTOGRAPHER is only this filter. Do not confuse WA with D.C.

What the join is not

This page does not count working photographers, rank studios, or claim that Photographer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A photographer title on Schedule A is not a copyright registry and not a union roll.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PHOTOGRAPHER is not a PPA membership extract. Donor state WA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Studio names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Photographer filter

Subtract the Washington dollars on this page from the national PHOTOGRAPHER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PHOTOGRAPHER in every other state combined. That remainder ($13,749,746) 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 54 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 1,559 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $667,455 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Washington dollars, or only the PHOTOGRAPHER national total, drops a key. Washington’s dollar share running ahead of its contribution share is the fact to keep next to the $667,455 headline.

Related tables

Photographer donations holds the $14,417,201 national occupation total. Washington 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. WA is Washington state in FEC bulk data, not the District of Columbia.

Questions

How much have Photographer donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PHOTOGRAPHER and state Washington total $667,455, from 1,559 contributions and 54 donors. Nationwide, PHOTOGRAPHER-coded receipts are $14,417,201 from 64,876 contributions and 1,809 donors. Washington is about 4.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Washington photographers?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is the string PHOTOGRAPHER and state is WA. The 54 Washington donors used occupation PHOTOGRAPHER and state WA. Filers who wrote VIDEOGRAPHER or FILMMAKER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Photographer FEC money is from Washington?

About 4.6% of the $14,417,201 occupation total is in this Washington join ($667,455). Washington also accounts for about 2.4% of contributions (1,559 of 64,876) and about 3.0% of donors (54 of 1,809). Dollar share (about 4.6%) runs ahead of contribution share (about 2.4%).

Does this money go to Washington candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $667,455 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to WA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.