RN political contributions from California

Two keys: RN and CA

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string RN, donor state CA. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $2,741,718, from 43,736 contributions and 681 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a self-reported occupation. Free-text fields let filers write a longer title, a nearby spelling, or an employer instead. Those rows are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets. Neighbors include registered nurse, nurse, R.N., and nursing.

$2,741,718 is smaller than $13,061,591 because other states exist, and it is not a share of all California giving because this packet has no state-wide occupation-blind denominator. The join is the point. RN is the abbreviation as typed. REGISTERED NURSE is a neighboring exact string with its own California join and is not recoded into this cell.

RN as typed, not a census

After this California cell of $2,741,718, $10,319,873 of the RN grouping remains in other states. That remainder is 79.0% of $13,061,591. The California page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No statewide all-occupation total is supplied, so no share of California politics is claimed. 21.0% is RN-internal. Inpatient versus outpatient versus travel-nursing work is unpublished.

Means on $2,741,718

681 donors and 43,736 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 64.2 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$4,026 per donor and $63 per line are derived from $2,741,718. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. Inpatient versus outpatient versus travel-nursing work remains unpublished.

Dropping the RN filter

Dropping the RN filter returns the reader to the California campaign-finance index. That index is not $2,741,718. Adding the filter back recovers this cell: 43,736 contributions, 681 donors, $2,741,718.

No statewide all-occupation denominator is in the packet, so RN cannot be ranked as a percent of California itemized giving. 21.0% remains a share of $13,061,591 only.

Keeping $2,741,718 attached to both keys

Keep both nouns in every citation: RN and California. Dropping the state turns $2,741,718 into $13,061,591. Dropping the occupation turns this cell into the state hub, which this packet does not quantify as an all-occupation total.

Internal paths: /occupations/rn/ for the occupation running total, /states/CA/ for the state without this title, /occupations/ for neighboring strings, /ties/ for other joins. RN is the abbreviation as typed. REGISTERED NURSE is a neighboring exact string with its own California join and is not recoded into this cell.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation RN ∩ state CA = $2,741,718, 43,736 receipts, 681 donors, 21.0% of $13,061,591. Neighbors remain registered nurse, nurse, R.N., and nursing. Source remains FEC.gov.

Questions

What did occupation RN itemize from CA?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $2,741,718 from occupation RN with donor state CA. That join covers 43,736 contributions from 681 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $13,061,591, so California is about 21.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What remainder of RN money sits outside California?

About 21.0% of the $13,061,591 RN grouping is coded to California: $2,741,718. Contribution share is about 23.1% (43,736 of 189,744). Donor share is about 19.7% (681 of 3,449). The remainder $10,319,873 is other states.

Does this page merge neighboring occupation strings?

No. 681 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $63 across 43,736 contributions. Registered nurse, nurse, R.N., and nursing, if stored separately, are other keys. This join is RN only.

Is this the RN hub or the California hub?

RN donations carry the $13,061,591 occupation total. California campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the RN × CA intersection only.