RN political contributions from Washington

What the RN and Washington fields share on one receipt

Every itemized individual contribution filed with the Federal Election Commission carries a self-reported occupation string and a donor state. This tie keeps only the rows that match both filters at once: occupation RN and state WA. The intersection is $842,750, 14,293 contributions, and 206 donors. Drop the state filter and the same occupation label is $13,061,591, 189,744 contributions, and 3,449 donors. Washington therefore holds about 6.5% of RN-coded dollars, about 7.5% of RN-coded contribution rows, and about 6.0% of RN-coded donors.

The join exists because neither hub, read alone, is this relationship. The national RN occupation page mixes every donor state. The Washington campaign-finance page mixes every occupation string. Matching the two columns is the only way to see how much of the RN bucket is also coded to Washington, and how much of Washington’s itemized individual activity sits in this particular label.

The RN occupation string nationwide

Occupation labels are filer-entered. RN is an abbreviation. It can mean registered nurse, a similar clinical title, or a string a filer typed because it fit on the form. It is not a license check and it is not merged here with REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE, or other neighboring labels. Those strings, if they appear on other receipts, live in other occupation buckets.

The national RN totals—$13,061,591, 189,744 contributions, 3,449 donors—describe a high-volume bucket: many itemized rows relative to the donor count. That pattern is consistent with small and repeat itemized gifts inside the label. This page does not split those rows by cycle, committee, or party. It only locates how much of the labeled activity is also coded to Washington.

Washington as the donor-state side of the match

Two hundred six Washington donors produced 14,293 contributions totaling $842,750. That is a high row count for a mid-six-figure dollar total: the Washington RN slice is busy on the contribution register even though it is a single-digit share of the national RN dollar figure. Other Washington occupations are outside this join. Other states’ RN-coded receipts make up the gap between $842,750 and $13,061,591.

Donor state is the address on the contribution record. It is not proof of current residency, of where a recipient campaign is based, or of which Washington races, if any, received the funds. A WA code does not mean the $842,750 stayed in Washington contests.

How the dollar share compares with the people share

Washington’s 6.5% of RN dollars sits close to its 6.0% of RN donors and 7.5% of RN contribution rows. The join is not a handful of outsized gifts hiding inside a quiet occupation. It is a broad slice of a high-volume national label. That is a different shape from occupation-state pairs where a few donors account for most of the dollars.

Closeness of those three percentages is still not a finding about influence or about the nursing workforce. It is a description of how the two FEC columns overlap. Changing how filers spell the occupation would move rows into or out of this bucket without any change in who actually gave.

What this join does not measure

This page does not say Washington politics is funded by nurses, and it does not rank states by RN giving. Occupation and state are two columns on itemized individual receipts. Correlation between a job string and a state code is not causation and is not a ranking of professions.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee-to-committee transfers are not in these counts. Misspellings and longer titles would sit in other occupation buckets if filers used those strings. The occupation hub, the Washington state hub, the occupations index, and the ties index are the places to read each side of the match without the other filter applied.

Questions

How much have RN-occupation donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation RN and state Washington total $842,750. That join includes 14,293 contributions and 206 donors. Nationwide, RN-coded receipts are $13,061,591 from 3,449 donors and 189,744 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is RN the same as Registered Nurse in FEC data?

Not in this table. This join uses the occupation string RN as filed. REGISTERED NURSE is a separate occupation bucket on LobbyVault. The Washington RN slice is $842,750 from 206 donors. Combining labels would invent a total that FEC filers did not enter as a single field.

Does a Washington donor state mean the money stayed in Washington races?

No. Donor state is Washington on the contribution record. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $842,750 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees. Use the Washington state hub and the RN occupation hub for the unjoined sides.

Why report contribution count and donor count together?

The Washington RN join has 14,293 contributions and 206 donors. The national RN label has 189,744 contributions and 3,449 donors. Those two pairs show that the bucket is high-volume, not that any named person gave a particular amount. The page does not list donors or split rows by committee.