Self Employed political contributions from Illinois

Self Employed and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SELF EMPLOYED and donor state IL produce $1,235,336, 3,701 contributions, and 231 donors. The occupation hub is $36,457,822, 169,112 contributions, and 7,177 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.4%; contribution share about 2.2% (3,701 of 169,112); donor share about 3.2% (231 of 7,177). Two hundred thirty-one Illinois donors are about 3.2% of 7,177 national donors; 3,701 contributions are about 2.2% of 169,112 national rows; dollars are about 3.4% of $36,457,822.

OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and BUSINESS OWNER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Self Employed total. Do not stack SELF EMPLOYED with OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

231 Illinois donors produced 3,701 contributions, about 16.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 23.6 rows per donor nationally (169,112 contributions from 7,177 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $334, against about $216 nationwide. Illinois’s about 3.4% share of $36,457,822 from 231 people is a many-person slice of a high-row occupation, distinct from the Minnesota Self Employed cell.

SELF EMPLOYED without a Minnesota overlay

SELF EMPLOYED is a filer-entered string. The national occupation hub is the same $36,457,822 book. This page filters donor state IL. Exact self, unemployed, and homemaker remain different placeholders. The $36,457,822 national total is SELF EMPLOYED only. 7,177 donors produced 169,112 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 169,112 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). One hundred sixty-nine thousand one hundred twelve national contributions make this a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the state side

231 Illinois donors produced 3,701 contributions totaling $1,235,336. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois sole proprietorship, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,235,336.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only SELF EMPLOYED. The Self Employed occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.6% of the $36,457,822. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. SELF EMPLOYED is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not add the Minnesota cell into this total, treat the string as unemployed, or claim that Self Employed-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. The Minnesota Self Employed join is a different pair with different state totals. Do not stack the two cells.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SELF EMPLOYED is not a sole-proprietor registry. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. NAICS codes are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Illinois Self Employed filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national SELF EMPLOYED occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SELF EMPLOYED in every other state combined. That remainder ($35,222,486) 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 231 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 3,701 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,235,336 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the SELF EMPLOYED national total, drops a key. Two hundred thirty-one donors producing 3,701 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,235,336 headline.

Related tables

Self Employed donations holds the $36,457,822 national occupation total. Illinois 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. Minnesota has a separate Self Employed occupation-state tie; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Self Employed donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SELF EMPLOYED and state Illinois total $1,235,336, from 3,701 contributions and 231 donors. Nationwide, SELF EMPLOYED-coded receipts are $36,457,822 from 169,112 contributions and 7,177 donors. Illinois is about 3.4% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the Minnesota Self Employed page?

No. This join is SELF EMPLOYED and state IL. The Minnesota cell is a different pair. Exact self is still a different placeholder. The 231 Illinois donors used occupation SELF EMPLOYED and state IL. Filers who wrote OWNER or BUSINESS OWNER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Self Employed FEC money is from Illinois?

About 3.4% of the $36,457,822 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,235,336). Illinois also accounts for about 2.2% of contributions (3,701 of 169,112) and about 3.2% of donors (231 of 7,177). About 3.4% of dollars from 231 of 7,177 donors and 3,701 of 169,112 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,235,336 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.