Self-Employed political contributions from Midland, TX

Self-Employed and Midland, TX as a two-key join

$18,950 is not the Midland, TX hub and not the Self-Employed hub. It is the rows where both stored values match: SELF-EMPLOYED on the employer/industry grouping and MIDLAND with state TX on the city field. LobbyVault publishes each side as its own table. This page exists because the two tables meet.

Twenty-three contributions from 19 donors sum to $18,950. Nineteen donors is the extract's headcount for the pair, not a census of every independent worker in Midland. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count modestly above the donor count. Mean per receipt is about $824; mean per donor is about $997. Those averages are packet quotients, not typical invoices.

SELF-EMPLOYED is the exact stored occupation grouping, including the hyphen. Unhyphenated SELF EMPLOYED, owner, and a business name are other keys unless the filer typed SELF-EMPLOYED. $18,950 does not silently absorb those variants. City labels are filer-entered; Midland, TX is not merged with other Texas city strings.

Midland, TX with every employer string still on

Without the SELF-EMPLOYED filter, Midland, TX records $82,334,215 across 108,952 contributions. $18,950 is under 0.1% of that city book. Exact occupation matching usually leaves most city dollars on other labels, including other oil and self-employment spellings. The packet does not publish a small-business sector roll-up. Do not treat $18,950 as Midland's entire independent-work economy.

Midland is a Texas city field. Texas campaign finance is the state parent. Do not add $18,950 into the Texas hub as a new increment; the same tape already holds these lines when the extract is consistent. All FEC ties lists other city-industry pages. Those pages are siblings, not components of $18,950.

Self-Employed rows stored outside Midland

The Self-Employed industry hub collects the same stored hyphenated string in every city. $18,950 is only the Midland, TX slice published here. A SELF-EMPLOYED line in another Texas city is a different join. A Midland line with a different occupation string is a different join. Packet facts for this pair remain $18,950, 23 contributions, and 19 donors.

This packet does not split $18,950 by committee, party, or cycle. If those dimensions exist, they belong on the live Self-Employed page or the live Midland, TX page. Keep both nouns in any citation so the join cannot be misread as a statewide self-employed total.

What $18,950 does not measure in Midland

Unitemized federal gifts, Texas state-office filings, and independent expenditures sit outside $18,950. The total is not a count of sole proprietorships and not a measure of 1099 volume. PAC addresses that stored MIDLAND and SELF-EMPLOYED follow the same city-and-industry rule as household addresses.

Nineteen donors and $18,950 do not show that self-employed filers run Midland politics. Correlation is not causation. The join is two filer-entered fields. If the live overlay later shows a different dollar total, receipt count, or donor count, the newer FEC extract controls.

Links for Midland, TX and Self-Employed without mixing ledgers

Internal links are Midland, TX, Self-Employed, Texas campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use every href. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending obligations. This packet has no award dollars. Do not add $18,950 to federal spending in Texas because both series can mention the same city name.

Keep both sides in the sentence: Self-Employed and Midland, TX. $18,950 is a subset of $82,334,215, not a second city book. 108,952 is the unfiltered city line count. The join's line count is 23. Do not add 23 to 108,952.

Citation pattern for the Self-Employed × Midland pair

Cite FEC.gov: industry grouping SELF-EMPLOYED, contributor city Midland, TX, $18,950 on 23 itemized individual contributions from 19 donors, against $82,334,215 on 108,952 city-field contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). City labels are filer-entered. Keep the hyphen as stored. LobbyVault indexes the join; it is not a third filing system.

Send readers to the live Midland, TX hub, the Self-Employed industry page, Texas campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Cycle-only Midland pages are city-cycle joins. Occupation-only cycle pages are other files. This file stays on one city and one stored occupation string.

Questions

How much did Self-Employed donors in Midland, TX give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing SELF-EMPLOYED and city MIDLAND total $18,950 across 23 receipts from 19 donors in this extract. That is the join, not Midland, TX's $82,334,215 all-industry book. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does Self-Employed in Midland include the unhyphenated Self Employed label?

No. Only the exact stored string SELF-EMPLOYED is inside $18,950. Unhyphenated SELF EMPLOYED is another key. Nineteen donors and 23 receipts follow the hyphenated exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not merge the two labels.

What share of Midland, TX itemized money is Self-Employed?

$18,950 is under 0.1% of the $82,334,215 Midland, TX city book (108,952 contributions). A thin share usually means other employer strings dominate the city tape. Quote both dollars. Do not upgrade under 0.1% into a sector ranking.

Do Self-Employed donations in Midland fund federal awards in Texas?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $18,950 does not become a contract. This packet has no obligation dollars. Different statutes, different forms. Filings remain on FEC.gov.