Sales political contributions from Pennsylvania

Sales and Pennsylvania as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SALES and donor state PA produce $2,485,846, 10,842 contributions, and 644 donors. The occupation hub is $70,603,695, 384,165 contributions, and 16,747 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 3.5%; contribution share about 2.8% (10,842 of 384,165); donor share about 3.8% (644 of 16,747). Six hundred forty-four Pennsylvania donors are about 3.8% of 16,747 national donors; 10,842 contributions are about 2.8% of 384,165 national rows; dollars are about 3.5% of $70,603,695.

SALES MANAGER, SALESPERSON, and MARKETING, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Sales total. Do not stack SALES with SALES MANAGER or MARKETING into a single Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

644 Pennsylvania donors produced 10,842 contributions, about 16.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 22.9 rows per donor nationally (384,165 contributions from 16,747 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Pennsylvania cell is about $229, against about $184 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s about 3.5% dollar share from 10,842 rows is a smaller-row slice than New Jersey’s 16,057-row Sales cell of the same occupation.

SALES as a workplace shorthand

SALES is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a quota, a product line, or an employer. One word on the form is the filter. The $70,603,695 national total is SALES only. 16,747 donors produced 384,165 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 384,165 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Pennsylvania (PA). Sixteen thousand seven hundred forty-seven national donors make SALES a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state PA.

Pennsylvania as the donor-state stamp

644 Pennsylvania donors produced 10,842 contributions totaling $2,485,846. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. PA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Pennsylvania territory, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,485,846.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only SALES. The Sales occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 96.5% of the $70,603,695. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to PA. SALES is only this filter.

What the Sales–Pennsylvania join is not

This page does not measure retail volume, add New Jersey Sales dollars, or claim that Sales-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SALES is not MARKETING even when filers meant a commercial job. This cell is not the New Jersey Sales pair.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SALES is not a NAICS wholesale extract. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Pennsylvania Sales filter

Subtract the Pennsylvania dollars on this page from the national SALES occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SALES in every other state combined. That remainder ($68,117,849) 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 of 644 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 10,842 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,485,846 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the SALES national total, drops a key. Six hundred forty-four donors producing 10,842 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,485,846 headline.

Related tables

Sales donations holds the $70,603,695 national occupation total. Pennsylvania campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. New Jersey has a separate Sales occupation-state tie in this same slice; those 16,057 contributions are a different pair.

Questions

How much have Sales donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SALES and state Pennsylvania total $2,485,846, from 10,842 contributions and 644 donors. Nationwide, SALES-coded receipts are $70,603,695 from 384,165 contributions and 16,747 donors. Pennsylvania is about 3.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the New Jersey Sales page?

No. This join is SALES and state PA. The New Jersey cell is a different pair. Six hundred forty-four Pennsylvania donors produced 10,842 gifts totaling $2,485,846. The 644 Pennsylvania donors used occupation SALES and state PA. Filers who wrote SALESPERSON or SALES MANAGER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Sales FEC money is from Pennsylvania?

About 3.5% of the $70,603,695 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($2,485,846). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 2.8% of contributions (10,842 of 384,165) and about 3.8% of donors (644 of 16,747). About 3.5% of dollars from 644 of 16,747 donors and 10,842 of 384,165 contributions.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,485,846 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to PA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.