Real Estate Broker political contributions from Florida

What the Real Estate Broker–Florida join measures

FEC individual contribution records carry a self-reported occupation string and a donor state. This tie keeps rows that match both: occupation REAL ESTATE BROKER and state FL. The overlap is $3,605,441, 11,995 contributions, and 1,022 donors. Strip the state filter and the occupation hub is larger: $44,876,243, 153,581 contributions, and 11,039 donors. Florida’s share of those dollars is about 8%; its share of contributions is about 8% (11,995 of 153,581); its share of donors is about 9% (1,022 of 11,039).

Those three shares sit close together. Unlike occupation-state pairs where a handful of donors carry most of the money, this Florida slice tracks the national mix on dollars, rows, and people. That is a description of two FEC columns overlapping, not evidence that Florida brokers give more or less than brokers elsewhere. Itemization thresholds, who writes this exact string, and which committees file with the FEC all shape the table.

On a per-donor basis inside this join, 1,022 Florida people produced 11,995 itemized rows—about 12 contributions per donor if the 1,022 unique-donor count is taken at face value. That ratio is a property of the aggregate, not a typical gift size, because the $3,605,441 is not spread evenly and this page does not publish a median. FEC unique-donor logic can still collapse similar names imperfectly. Use the occupation hub for the unlabeled-by-state remainder of the $44,876,243.

The Real Estate Broker occupation label nationwide

Occupation strings are filer-entered. REAL ESTATE BROKER can mean a licensed broker, a brokerage owner, a salesperson who used the longer title, or anyone who preferred that phrase to REALTOR, BROKER, or REAL ESTATE. The national totals—$44,876,243, 153,581 contributions, 11,039 donors—are the labeled bucket, not a count of active licenses.

Eleven thousand thirty-nine donors producing 153,581 contributions implies substantial repeat itemization inside the national label. This page does not split those repeats by cycle or committee. It only locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Florida. Nearby strings such as REALTOR sit in other occupation hubs if filers used those words.

Florida as the donor-state side of the pair

One thousand twenty-two Florida donors produced 11,995 contributions totaling $3,605,441. That is a relatively broad state-side picture compared with occupation-state joins that rest on a few dozen people. Other Florida occupations—including CEO, accountant, and realtor strings that appear in separate ties—are outside this join even when they share the FL state code.

Donor state is the address on the contribution record, not proof of a Florida real-estate license or of where the recipient campaign is based. An FL code does not mean the $3,605,441 stayed in Florida races. Recipients can be any committee that files with the FEC.

Florida’s itemized individual universe is much larger than this occupation slice. Anyone reading the state hub as if it were a broker-only table would overstate this join. Conversely, anyone reading the Real Estate Broker occupation hub as if it were a Florida table would miss that about 92% of the $44,876,243 sits outside this FL filter. The tie exists to keep those two misreadings from substituting for each other.

What this occupation-state match is not

This join does not measure the political weight of Florida’s housing market, and it does not rank brokers against other occupations on influence. Occupation and state are two columns on itemized individual receipts. Correlation between a job title and a state code is not causation and is not a ranking of industries.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee-to-committee transfers are not in these counts. Misspellings and shorter titles (BROKER, REAL ESTATE AGENT) would sit in other occupation buckets if filers used those strings. FEC.gov is the source.

Committees, cycles, and employer fields are not rolled into these six numbers. A contribution coded REAL ESTATE BROKER and FL in one cycle and REALTOR and FL in another would split across occupation hubs. That splitting is a feature of filer-entered text, not a data error the join can repair. Researchers who need committee-level receipts should leave this page for the occupation and state tables, then for contribution detail where the site provides it.

What the Real Estate Broker–Florida remainder is

Subtract the Florida dollars on this page from the national Real Estate Broker occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Real Estate Broker in every other state combined. That remainder 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 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 Florida dollars, or only the Real Estate Broker 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. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related FEC hubs for this pair

The Real Estate Broker occupation page holds the $44,876,243 national total and the 11,039-donor count. Florida campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to FL, not only this occupation. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair next to other occupation-state intersections built the same way from FEC.gov aggregates.

Questions

How much have Real Estate Broker donors in Florida given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Real Estate Broker and state Florida total $3,605,441. That join includes 11,995 contributions and 1,022 donors. Nationwide, Real Estate Broker-coded receipts are $44,876,243 from 11,039 donors and 153,581 contributions. Florida is about 8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these donors licensed Florida real estate brokers?

No verification of licenses is in the FEC file. The occupation field is the string REAL ESTATE BROKER as entered on itemized individual filings, and the state field is FL. The 1,022 Florida donors in this join are people whose records used that pair of labels, not a Department of Business and Professional Regulation roster.

What share of all Real Estate Broker FEC money is from Florida?

About 8% of the $44,876,243 Real Estate Broker occupation total is in this Florida join ($3,605,441). Florida also accounts for about 8% of the occupation’s contributions (11,995 of 153,581) and about 9% of its donors (1,022 of 11,039). Those percentages describe the overlap of two FEC columns.

Does this money go to Florida candidates only?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Florida on the contribution record. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $3,605,441 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees. Use the Florida state hub and the Real Estate Broker occupation hub for the unjoined sides.