Surgeon political contributions from Ohio

How Surgeon and Ohio meet in the extract

The Ohio × Surgeon join is a database match, not a narrative about a profession. $625,199 entered the extract because itemized receipts carried occupation SURGEON and donor state OH at the same time. 1,456 is the matching line count. 129 is the matching donor-key count. $18,386,780 is what remains when the state filter is lifted for the same occupation string.

Dividing $625,199 by 1,456 yields about $429 per contribution. Dividing by 129 yields about $4,847 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 11.3 (1,456 ÷ 129). Those ratios describe this string in Ohio, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

Occupation is not a license check. SURGEON is the specialty-style string. Named surgical specialties (orthopaedic, cardiac) are other keys if those extra words appear. Board certification is not verified. Independent expenditures and USAspending tables do not feed $625,199. Source: FEC.gov.

How FEC stores Surgeon as an occupation

What the occupation side includes: itemized individual receipts tagged SURGEON, summing to $18,386,780 across harvested states, of which $625,199 is the Ohio cell. What it excludes: other occupation strings, unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee filings that are not individual contribution aggregates.

Mean about $4,847 per donor in Ohio should be quoted with both inputs ($625,199 and 129). Dropping 129 turns the mean into an unsourced claim. SURGEON is the specialty-style string. Named surgical specialties (orthopaedic, cardiac) are other keys if those extra words appear. Board certification is not verified.

How OH sits on the itemized record

The address field that produced OH is whatever the filer or the committee keyed. It is not a geocode of a workplace. A Surgeon filer who works in one state and lives in Ohio still counts here if the contribution listed OH. The packet does not publish a workplace state.

2.8% of national Surgeon donors (129 of 4,547) and 2.6% of national Surgeon contributions (1,456 of 56,508) sit in this cell. Those shares can diverge from the 3.4% dollar share. Quote each share with its numerator and denominator.

Per-gift and per-donor dollars in Ohio

About $429 per contribution is $625,199 divided by 1,456. About $4,847 per donor is $625,199 divided by 129. About 11.3 gifts per donor is 1,456 divided by 129. Three ratios, three jobs. Dropping any input turns the ratio into an unsourced claim.

Nationwide means for the same string are about $325 per gift and $4,044 per donor. Comparing Ohio to those national means is still only arithmetic on packet facts. It is not a cost-of-living adjustment and not a ranking of civic intensity.

Keep the two dollar columns labeled

Never write that Surgeon gave $18,386,780 in Ohio. $18,386,780 is the national occupation total. Never write that the occupation’s only geography is Ohio unless 3.4% is 100%, which it is not here. $625,199 is the Ohio cell. The two columns are labeled stateTotal and occupationTotal in the packet for that reason.

3.4% is the only legitimate bridge between the columns. It is a quotient, not a second source. Independent expenditures still sit outside both columns. Label every dollar figure when you reuse it.

Itemized coverage and what stays outside

Itemized coverage means receipts that met the FEC itemization threshold and carried this occupation string. $625,199 is that subset for Ohio. It is not total political spending by people who hold similar jobs, and it is not total Ohio receipts.

SURGEON is the specialty-style string. Named surgical specialties (orthopaedic, cardiac) are other keys if those extra words appear. Board certification is not verified. Keep Surgeon and Ohio in the same sentence as $625,199. Dropping either noun misstates the denominator.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Surgeon, donor state Ohio (OH), $625,199 itemized, 1,456 contributions, 129 donors, 3.4% of $18,386,780. SURGEON is the specialty-style string. Named surgical specialties (orthopaedic, cardiac) are other keys if those extra words appear. Board certification is not verified. Physician, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon, and General Surgeon stay on other occupation pages. The Ohio campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $625,199: treat it as payroll, treat 129 as a workforce census, treat 3.4% as a share of Ohio statewide receipts, or treat the cell as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links. Mean about $429 per contribution and $4,847 per donor remain attached to 1,456 and 129. About 11.3 lines per donor remains 1,456 divided by 129.

Questions

How much did Surgeon-tagged donors in Ohio give?

The join records $625,199 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Surgeon and donor state Ohio, from 1,456 contributions and 129 donors. The occupation’s national total is $18,386,780, so Ohio is 3.4% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every surgeon who donated from Ohio?

No. The 129 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to SURGEON and OH. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $625,199 on 1,456 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What two tables meet on this page?

Surgeon donations ($18,386,780 for the string) and Ohio campaign finance. The overlap is $625,199 from 1,456 receipts and 129 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-state cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Surgeon in Ohio.

Do these Ohio donations fund federal spending?

No. $625,199 is FEC itemized individual contributions tagged Surgeon and Ohio. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This join does not claim donations funded contracts or grants. Independent expenditures are also outside $625,199. Source: FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Donor state is an address code, not recipient geography.