Surgeon political contributions from California

Surgeon and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SURGEON and donor state CA produce $2,012,586, 5,672 contributions, and 396 donors. The occupation hub is $18,386,780, 56,508 contributions, and 4,547 donors. California’s dollar share is about 10.9%; contribution share about 10.0% (5,672 of 56,508); donor share about 8.7% (396 of 4,547). Three hundred ninety-six California donors are about 8.7% of 4,547 national donors; 5,672 contributions are about 10.0% of 56,508 national rows; dollars are about 10.9% of $18,386,780.

MD, PHYSICIAN, and ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Surgeon total. Do not stack SURGEON with MD or PHYSICIAN into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

396 California donors produced 5,672 contributions, about 14.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12.4 rows per donor nationally (56,508 contributions from 4,547 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $355, against about $325 nationwide. California’s about 10.9% share of $18,386,780 from 5,672 rows is a mid-repeat specialty slice of a 56,508-row occupation.

SURGEON as a specialty-title string

SURGEON is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a board certificate, a hospital privilege, or a practice. The word on the form is the filter. The $18,386,780 national total is SURGEON only. 4,547 donors produced 56,508 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 56,508 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Four thousand five hundred forty-seven national donors make SURGEON a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as the Surgeon donor-state stamp

396 California donors produced 5,672 contributions totaling $2,012,586. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California OR, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,012,586.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only SURGEON. The Surgeon occupation hub without California still holds about 89.1% of the $18,386,780. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. SURGEON is only this filter.

What the Surgeon–California join is not

This page does not count licensed physicians, merge MD dollars, or claim that Surgeon-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SURGEON is not MD. This slice’s California MD cell ($2,067,140) is a different pair.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SURGEON is not a medical-board extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Specialty names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Surgeon filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national SURGEON occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SURGEON in every other state combined. That remainder ($16,374,194) 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 396 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 5,672 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,012,586 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the SURGEON national total, drops a key. Three hundred ninety-six donors producing 5,672 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,012,586 headline.

Related tables

Surgeon donations holds the $18,386,780 national occupation total. California 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. California MD is a separate occupation-state tie in this slice; those 15,181 contributions stay there.

Questions

How much have Surgeon donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SURGEON and state California total $2,012,586, from 5,672 contributions and 396 donors. Nationwide, SURGEON-coded receipts are $18,386,780 from 56,508 contributions and 4,547 donors. California is about 10.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Surgeon the same as MD?

No. SURGEON is the stored string. MD is a different California join in this slice. Three hundred ninety-six California donors used SURGEON. The 396 California donors used occupation SURGEON and state CA. Filers who wrote MD or PHYSICIAN may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Surgeon FEC money is from California?

About 10.9% of the $18,386,780 occupation total is in this California join ($2,012,586). California also accounts for about 10.0% of contributions (5,672 of 56,508) and about 8.7% of donors (396 of 4,547). About 10.9% of dollars from 396 of 4,547 donors and 5,672 of 56,508 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,012,586 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.