Researcher political contributions from Washington

How Researcher and Washington meet in the FEC file

Itemized individual contributions include a self-reported occupation and a donor state. This tie is the subset where occupation is RESEARCHER and state is WA. The subset totals $773,856, 3,624 contributions, and 88 donors. The occupation with no state filter is $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors. Washington holds about 5.9% of Researcher-coded dollars, about 5.5% of Researcher-coded contribution rows, and about 4.9% of Researcher-coded donors.

Those three shares sit in a tight band. The Washington Researcher join is a proportional slice of a large national label rather than an outlier that dominates the occupation. The national Researcher page still mixes every other state. The Washington campaign-finance page still mixes every other occupation. Only the join isolates this pair.

Eighty-eight Washington donors and 3,624 contribution rows produced $773,856 under RESEARCHER. The occupation side is $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors. About 5.9% of dollars, about 5.5% of rows, and about 4.9% of donors is a tight band, which is why this join reads as a proportional slice rather than a spike. Proportional still does not mean typical. Other states may hold RESEARCHER receipts in very different mixes of dollars, rows, and people. This page reports only the Washington cut.

RESEARCHER as a national occupation string

RESEARCHER is a broad filer-entered word. It can cover academic research, corporate research, market research, or a shorthand a contributor preferred. It is not merged here with SCIENTIST, SCIENTIST RESEARCH, or job titles that name a field. Those other strings, when filed, live elsewhere.

Nationally, 1,808 donors produced 65,981 contributions totaling $13,109,440. That is a high-row occupation relative to headcount, consistent with many itemized gifts inside the label. This page does not break the 65,981 rows by cycle. It only reports how much of that labeled activity is also coded Washington.

Washington’s 88-donor cut

Eighty-eight Washington donors produced 3,624 contributions totaling $773,856. Compared with the national 1,808 donors, that is about one in twenty Researcher-coded identities. Other Washington occupations are not in this total. Researcher receipts from other states fill the gap up to $13,109,440.

WA is the donor-state code. It does not prove employment at a Washington institution and does not prove the $773,856 went to Washington federal candidates. Committees in any state can appear as recipients on the underlying receipts.

RN is a different Washington occupation join

Washington appears on other occupation-state pages, including RN. Those joins use different occupation strings and different dollar, contribution, and donor counts. Researcher and RN are not added together on this page. Stacking Washington occupation joins would double-count nothing automatically, but it would also not produce “all Washington giving,” because most Washington receipts use other occupation labels.

Keep each tie on its own two columns. This file’s facts are $773,856, 3,624 contributions, 88 donors on the state side, and $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, 1,808 donors on the occupation side.

A proportional slice of a broad research title

Washington’s Researcher join is $773,856 from 88 donors and 3,624 contributions against $13,109,440 from 1,808 donors and 65,981 contributions nationwide. About 5.9% of dollars, about 4.9% of donors, and about 5.5% of rows sit in a tight band. The join is a proportional cut of a large, high-row occupation rather than an outlier.

RESEARCHER is not SCIENTIST and not RN. A Washington RN join uses a different occupation string and a different national total that is not in this packet. Combining Washington occupation joins does not produce all Washington giving.

Employer and field of study are not in these facts. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. See Researcher donations, Washington campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

What the relationship is not

This join does not say Washington’s research sector funds federal elections, and it does not treat occupation as a proxy for a university or a tech employer. Two self-reported fields matched. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are outside the counts. Use Researcher donations, Washington campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties to read each dimension without the other.

Questions

How much have Researcher donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Researcher and state Washington total $773,856. That join includes 3,624 contributions and 88 donors. Nationwide, Researcher-coded receipts are $13,109,440 from 1,808 donors and 65,981 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What share of national Researcher giving is from Washington?

Washington’s $773,856 is about 5.9% of the $13,109,440 national Researcher total. The state has 88 of 1,808 donors (about 4.9%) and 3,624 of 65,981 contributions (about 5.5%). Those percentages describe the join only.

Does Researcher mean university researchers?

The occupation field is the string RESEARCHER as entered. It is not a verified academic roster. Nationally the label covers 1,808 donors and $13,109,440. This tie only adds the Washington state filter. Employer is a separate FEC field not aggregated here.

Is this money for Washington campaigns?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington on the contribution record. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $773,856 by office Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Washington races. This join is $773,856 from 88 donors and 3,624 contributions against $13,109,440 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.