Physician political contributions from Cambridge, MA
$14,700 is the PHYSICIAN overlap inside Cambridge, MA: 21 itemized receipts from 6 donors. Cambridge indexes $147,227,540 across 388,185 city-field contributions. The occupation slice is under 0.1% of that city total. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates are the source.
Key figures
- Physician × Cambridge, MA = $14,700 on FEC itemized individual contributions.
- Do not add $14,700 to $147,227,540; the slice is already inside the city book.
- No party split, cycle, or award dollars in this packet.
- Use Cambridge, MA, Physician, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties.
- Correlation is not causation.
Physician dollars inside Cambridge, MA
Name both sides in the same sentence: Physician and Cambridge, MA. Dropping either noun turns $14,700 into a restatement of a hub it is not. The packet published 21 receipts and 6 donors for the overlap. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates are the source. City labels are filer-entered.
If 21 exceeds 6, the extra lines are repeat itemizations under the same harvested headcount, not extra people invented by this page. If the two counts are close, still do not treat 6 as a workforce census. The packet does not publish occupation codes, hours, or unique-employer IDs beyond the stored string PHYSICIAN.
LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. $14,700 stays a campaign-finance figure even when the same city name appears in a spending dataset.
Why an exact Physician string looks small in Cambridge
Massachusetts campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Cambridge. Do not treat $147,227,540 as the MA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $147,227,540. State-office campaigns in Massachusetts file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.
Use the live Cambridge, MA hub when you need the city table without the Physician filter. This prose is a packet snapshot of the join, not a replacement for that hub. If the live city total moved after a later ingest, FEC.gov and the hub control.
Unpacking Cambridge, MA without inventing a census
This packet does not name committees, parties, or cycles for the Physician × Cambridge, MA overlap. Open the live Physician page and the live Cambridge, MA page for those breakdowns if the extract publishes them. This prose stays on $14,700, 21 receipts, 6 donors, and the $147.2 million city book.
Quote Physician with Cambridge, MA in the same clause. A sentence that names only Physician is the industry hub's job. A sentence that names only Cambridge is the city hub's job. The join is $14,700, 21 receipts, 6 donors.
The Physician hub is not this page
Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing. Do not read $14,700 as evidence that Physician controls Cambridge politics. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation.
Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Physician and Cambridge, MA. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $14,700 across 21 receipts from 6 donors is the only overlap this extract published.
Limits of the two-table join
A usable footnote names Physician, Cambridge, MA, $14,700, 21 receipts, and 6 donors. The compact headline $14,700 is that same dollar total. It is not a second extract. The implied means near $700 and $2,450 are packet quotients.
Keep $14,700 attached to both keys. A later writer who drops Cambridge or drops Physician has left this join. The four hrefs on this page are /cities/ma-cambridge/, /industries/physician/, /states/MA/, and /ties/.
Quoting $14,700 with both sides named
Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Cambridge. This packet has no obligation dollars. Keep the contribution label on $14,700. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.
Keep the contribution label on the join dollars. Physician money tagged to Cambridge, MA is under 0. The city parent remains a larger table than the labeled slice. Researchers should quote itemized individual contributions, not outlays, and should not convert the donor headcount into a labor-market statistic. FEC.gov remains the originating system for every figure on this page. City labels are filer-entered.
Keep the contribution label on the join dollars. Physician money tagged to Cambridge, MA is under 0. The city parent remains a larger table than the labeled slice. Researchers should quote itemized individual contributions, not outlays, and should not convert the donor headcount into a labor-market statistic. FEC.gov remains the originating system for every figure on this page. City labels are filer-entered.
Keep the contribution label on the join dollars. Physician money tagged to Cambridge, MA is under 0. The city parent remains a larger table than the labeled slice. Researchers should quote itemized individual contributions, not outlays, and should not convert the donor headcount into a labor-market statistic. FEC.gov remains the originating system for every figure on this page. City labels are filer-entered.
Six PHYSICIAN donors and twenty-one receipts produced $14,700 in Cambridge, MA. Long Beach is a different PHYSICIAN city key. Massachusetts campaign finance covers the state. All FEC ties lists other joins. Do not treat $14,700 as a hospital payroll or a medical-board roster.
Questions
- How much has Physician given from Cambridge, MA?
- Exact-match employer fields usually take a small share of a large city tape. Cambridge has $147,227,540 on 388,185 lines; Physician is $14,700. under 0.1% describes that division. It is not a claim that Physician is unimportant in Massachusetts. Other strings are other keys.
- What is the mean Physician receipt in Cambridge?
- No. 6 is the harvested donor count for this exact string in this city. It is not a count of everyone in Cambridge who works in a related trade. Means near $2,450 per donor are arithmetic only. Open the live hubs for names if the extract lists them.
- Does this page cover Massachusetts state campaigns?
- No. under 0.1% is $14,700 divided by $147,227,540, not a ranked list of Cambridge employers. The packet does not publish other employer totals for comparison. Do not invent a ranking from one cell. Keep both Physician and Cambridge, MA in the citation. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. City labels are filer-entered.
- Is PHYSICIAN a NAICS code?
- No. PHYSICIAN is a filer-typed employer or occupation string, not a NAICS code and not a sector roll-up. $14,700 follows exact match in Cambridge, MA. Other strings are omitted even if they sound related. Keep both Physician and Cambridge, MA in the citation. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. City labels are filer-entered.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and employer/industry grouping. City labels are filer-entered.