Surgeon political contributions from Georgia

Two keys: SURGEON and GA

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string SURGEON, donor state GA. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $543,314, from 1,430 contributions and 175 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a self-reported occupation. Free-text fields let filers write a longer title, a nearby spelling, or an employer instead. Those rows are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets. Neighbors include physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor.

$543,314 is smaller than $18,386,780 because other states exist, and it is not a share of all Georgia giving because this packet has no state-wide occupation-blind denominator. The join is the point. Georgia SURGEON is a different state cell from Arizona and Tennessee. Board specialty is unpublished. Physician without surgeon remains another key.

Surgeon as typed, not a census

After this Georgia cell of $543,314, $17,843,466 of the Surgeon grouping remains in other states. That remainder is 97.0% of $18,386,780. The Georgia page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No statewide all-occupation total is supplied, so no share of Georgia politics is claimed. 3.0% is Surgeon-internal. Academic versus private-practice surgical titles as typed is unpublished.

Means on $543,314

175 donors and 1,430 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 8.2 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$3,105 per donor and $380 per line are derived from $543,314. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. Academic versus private-practice surgical titles as typed remains unpublished.

Dropping the Surgeon filter

Dropping the Surgeon filter returns the reader to the Georgia campaign-finance index. That index is not $543,314. Adding the filter back recovers this cell: 1,430 contributions, 175 donors, $543,314.

No statewide all-occupation denominator is in the packet, so Surgeon cannot be ranked as a percent of Georgia itemized giving. 3.0% remains a share of $18,386,780 only.

Keeping $543,314 attached to both keys

Keep both nouns in every citation: Surgeon and Georgia. Dropping the state turns $543,314 into $18,386,780. Dropping the occupation turns this cell into the state hub, which this packet does not quantify as an all-occupation total.

Internal paths: /occupations/surgeon/ for the occupation running total, /states/GA/ for the state without this title, /occupations/ for neighboring strings, /ties/ for other joins. Georgia SURGEON is a different state cell from Arizona and Tennessee. Board specialty is unpublished. Physician without surgeon remains another key.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation SURGEON ∩ state GA = $543,314, 1,430 receipts, 175 donors, 3.0% of $18,386,780. Neighbors remain physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor. Source remains FEC.gov.

Questions

What did occupation SURGEON itemize from GA?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $543,314 from occupation Surgeon with donor state GA. That join covers 1,430 contributions from 175 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $18,386,780, so Georgia is about 3.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What remainder of Surgeon money sits outside Georgia?

About 3.0% of the $18,386,780 Surgeon grouping is coded to Georgia: $543,314. Contribution share is about 2.5% (1,430 of 56,508). Donor share is about 3.8% (175 of 4,547). The remainder $17,843,466 is other states.

Does this page merge neighboring occupation strings?

No. 175 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $380 across 1,430 contributions. Physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor , if stored separately, are other keys. This join is SURGEON only.

Is this the Surgeon hub or the Georgia hub?

Surgeon donations carry the $18,386,780 occupation total. Georgia campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the SURGEON × GA intersection only.