Self Employed political contributions from Cambridge, MA

How Self Employed meets Cambridge

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Cambridge, MA. The other is self-employment occupation string Self Employed (stored as SELF EMPLOYED). $28,050 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $147,227,540 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 388,185 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 2 donors, not a census of everyone in Cambridge who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Cambridge, MA city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Self Employed industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Massachusetts campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

38 contributions from 2 donors produced $28,050. Repeat gifts add receipts; 2 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Self Employed workers in Cambridge. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $738; per donor, about $14,025. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Cambridge city book holds

Cambridge indexes $147,227,540 ($147 million rounded) on 388,185 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $147,227,540. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Cambridge can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 388,185.

Massachusetts campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Cambridge. Do not treat $147,227,540 as the MA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $147,227,540. State-office campaigns in Massachusetts file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Self Employed slice inside Cambridge

Inside Cambridge, receipts tagged Self Employed total $28,050 on 38 lines from 2 donors. That is under 0.1% of $147,227,540. About $738 per receipt is $28,050 divided by 38. About $14,025 per harvested donor is $28,050 divided by 2. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

Self Employed is a self-typed occupation string, not a license roster and not a Census class of independent contractors. Nearby labels such as SELF, SELF EMPLOYED, and SELF-EMPLOYED can be separate keys depending on punctuation. $28,050 counts only rows that stored this exact string with city CAMBRIDGE.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Self Employed that did not match this key never enter $28,050. Repeat gifts that did match add to 38 without necessarily adding to 2. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Cambridge.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Cambridge neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Self Employed money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Self Employed nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately, and this packet does not harvest that nationwide integer. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing.

under 0.1% is $28,050 divided by $147,227,540. Rounding the city total to $147 million does not create a second extract. Use $147,227,540 in a table. Use $147 million only as a headline form of the same integer. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Self Employed “controls” Cambridge politics.

How to cite the Cambridge × Self Employed facts

Citation template: self-employment occupation string Self Employed, contributor city Cambridge, MA, $28,050 on 38 itemized individual contributions from 2 donors, against a city-wide $147,227,540 on 388,185 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Cambridge, MA hub, the Self Employed industry page, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $28,050 to $147,227,540; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Cambridge and Self Employed hubs together

The Cambridge, MA hub is the unfiltered city index: $147,227,540 on 388,185 lines. The Self Employed hub is the grouping without this city’s filter; this packet does not print that nationwide integer, so do not guess it from $28,050. Massachusetts campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Cambridge. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $28,050 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 2 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Cambridge, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Self Employed in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Cambridge and Self Employed, $28,050, 38 receipts, 2 donors.

Questions

How much did Self Employed donors in Cambridge contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Self Employed and Cambridge, MA total $28,050 across 38 receipts from 2 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Cambridge’s $147,227,540 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $28,050 the full Cambridge political-money total?

No. Cambridge indexes $147,227,540 across 388,185 itemized contributions. $28,050 is only the Self Employed employer/occupation slice inside that city. Other strings, unitemized gifts, and state-office filings sit outside the join. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Does Self Employed money in Cambridge fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $28,050 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Cambridge. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where are the Cambridge and Self Employed live tables?

Use the Cambridge, MA city hub, the Self Employed industry hub, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Original itemizations remain on FEC.gov. This guide quotes $28,050, 38 receipts, 2 donors, and $147,227,540.