Scientist political contributions from Washington

How Scientist and Washington meet in the extract

The Washington × Scientist join is a database match, not a narrative about a profession. $857,777 entered the extract because itemized receipts carried occupation SCIENTIST and donor state WA at the same time. 5,673 is the matching line count. 214 is the matching donor-key count. $26,806,625 is what remains when the state filter is lifted for the same occupation string.

Dividing $857,777 by 5,673 yields about $151 per contribution. Dividing by 214 yields about $4,008 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 26.5 (5,673 ÷ 214). Those ratios describe this string in Washington, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

Occupation is not a license check. SCIENTIST is a generic research string. Research Scientist and named specialties are other keys. Academic versus industry versus government lab is unpublished. Independent expenditures and USAspending tables do not feed $857,777. Source: FEC.gov.

How FEC stores Scientist as an occupation

What the occupation side includes: itemized individual receipts tagged SCIENTIST, summing to $26,806,625 across harvested states, of which $857,777 is the Washington cell. What it excludes: other occupation strings, unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee filings that are not individual contribution aggregates.

Mean about $4,008 per donor in Washington should be quoted with both inputs ($857,777 and 214). Dropping 214 turns the mean into an unsourced claim. SCIENTIST is a generic research string. Research Scientist and named specialties are other keys. Academic versus industry versus government lab is unpublished.

How WA sits on the itemized record

The address field that produced WA is whatever the filer or the committee keyed. It is not a geocode of a workplace. A Scientist filer who works in one state and lives in Washington still counts here if the contribution listed WA. The packet does not publish a workplace state.

4.7% of national Scientist donors (214 of 4,567) and 3.4% of national Scientist contributions (5,673 of 166,337) sit in this cell. Those shares can diverge from the 3.2% dollar share. Quote each share with its numerator and denominator.

Per-gift and per-donor dollars in Washington

About $151 per contribution is $857,777 divided by 5,673. About $4,008 per donor is $857,777 divided by 214. About 26.5 gifts per donor is 5,673 divided by 214. Three ratios, three jobs. Dropping any input turns the ratio into an unsourced claim.

Nationwide means for the same string are about $161 per gift and $5,870 per donor. Comparing Washington to those national means is still only arithmetic on packet facts. It is not a cost-of-living adjustment and not a ranking of civic intensity.

Keep the two dollar columns labeled

Never write that Scientist gave $26,806,625 in Washington. $26,806,625 is the national occupation total. Never write that the occupation’s only geography is Washington unless 3.2% is 100%, which it is not here. $857,777 is the Washington cell. The two columns are labeled stateTotal and occupationTotal in the packet for that reason.

3.2% is the only legitimate bridge between the columns. It is a quotient, not a second source. Independent expenditures still sit outside both columns. Label every dollar figure when you reuse it.

Itemized coverage and what stays outside

Itemized coverage means receipts that met the FEC itemization threshold and carried this occupation string. $857,777 is that subset for Washington. It is not total political spending by people who hold similar jobs, and it is not total Washington receipts.

SCIENTIST is a generic research string. Research Scientist and named specialties are other keys. Academic versus industry versus government lab is unpublished. Keep Scientist and Washington in the same sentence as $857,777. Dropping either noun misstates the denominator.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Scientist, donor state Washington (WA), $857,777 itemized, 5,673 contributions, 214 donors, 3.2% of $26,806,625. SCIENTIST is a generic research string. Research Scientist and named specialties are other keys. Academic versus industry versus government lab is unpublished. Research Scientist, Researcher, Chemist, and Physicist stay on other occupation pages. The Washington campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $857,777: treat it as payroll, treat 214 as a workforce census, treat 3.2% as a share of Washington statewide receipts, or treat the cell as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links. Mean about $151 per contribution and $4,008 per donor remain attached to 5,673 and 214. About 26.5 lines per donor remains 5,673 divided by 214.

Questions

How much did Scientist-tagged donors in Washington give?

The join records $857,777 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Scientist and donor state Washington, from 5,673 contributions and 214 donors. The occupation’s national total is $26,806,625, so Washington is 3.2% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every scientist who donated from Washington?

No. The 214 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to SCIENTIST and WA. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $857,777 on 5,673 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What two tables meet on this page?

Scientist donations ($26,806,625 for the string) and Washington campaign finance. The overlap is $857,777 from 5,673 receipts and 214 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-state cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Scientist in Washington.

Do these Washington donations fund federal spending?

No. $857,777 is FEC itemized individual contributions tagged Scientist and Washington. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This join does not claim donations funded contracts or grants. Independent expenditures are also outside $857,777. Source: FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Donor state is an address code, not recipient geography.