Surgeon political contributions from Pennsylvania

SURGEON plus Pennsylvania, apart from orthopaedic surgeons

Occupation SURGEON and donor state PA produce $1,076,666, 1,904 contributions, and 227 donors. The occupation hub is $18,386,780, 56,508 contributions, and 4,547 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 5.9% ($1,076,666 of $18,386,780). Its contribution share is about 3.4% (1,904 of 56,508). Its donor share is about 5.0% (227 of 4,547).

Donor share and dollar share sit close together. Two hundred twenty-seven unique donors is a relatively thick unique-person count for a $1.1 million cell. Contribution share sits a little lower, which can reflect fewer repeat gifts per person than the national occupation mix.

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON is a separate occupation slug with its own Pennsylvania tie in this packet wave ($968,431, 1,478 contributions, 352 donors). Those rows are not inside $1,076,666 unless a grouping rule merged the titles, which this packet does not claim.

A one-word title beside specialty strings

Filers type SURGEON. Others type ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, PHYSICIAN, or MD. FEC.gov stores the string. Four thousand five hundred forty-seven national donors used SURGEON. Combining clinical titles after export is a researcher choice. This page reports the labeled grouping only.

Fifty-six thousand five hundred eight contributions from 4,547 donors nationwide is about 12 itemized gifts per donor. Pennsylvania’s 1,904 contributions from 227 donors is about 8 gifts per donor. Repeat itemization is less dense in the Pennsylvania SURGEON cell than in the national occupation average.

Pennsylvania cell averages

Dividing $1,076,666 by 1,904 contributions yields about $565 per gift. Dividing by 227 donors yields about $4,743 per donor. Nationally, $18,386,780 divided by 56,508 contributions is about $325 per gift. Pennsylvania’s mean is higher than the national occupation mean even though gifts-per-donor is lower.

Donor state PA is the address on the receipt. Recipients need not be Pennsylvania committees. Investment Analyst and Candidate ties in Pennsylvania use different occupation strings and different concentration patterns.

Two hundred twenty-seven Pennsylvania donors produced 1,904 contributions, about 8 itemized gifts per person, versus about 12 nationally. Frequency is lower. Mean gift (about $565 versus about $325) is higher. Those two gaps offset enough that donor share (5.0%) and dollar share (5.9%) stay close while contribution share (3.4%) lags.

Do not add SURGEON to ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON

A person who typed ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON is in that other Pennsylvania join. A person who typed SURGEON is in this cell. Adding $1,076,666 and $968,431 would mix occupation keys and could double-count anyone who used both strings across receipts. The two pages exist because the strings differ.

Pennsylvania’s 5.9% share is a table split, not causation, and not a measure of surgical volume. Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Unitemized money and independent expenditures are out of scope. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Orthopaedic Surgeon donors in Pennsylvania ($968,431, 352 donors) use a specialty string with more unique people and a similar dollar total. The two cells are siblings, not parent and child. A filer who typed SURGEON is here. A filer who typed ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON is there.

Occupation hub, state hub, specialty counterpart

Surgeon donations carries the $18,386,780 national occupation total. Pennsylvania campaign finance carries all PA-coded itemized individual activity. All occupations and All FEC ties keep SURGEON and ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON as separate Pennsylvania joins.

The occupation hub still holds $17,310,114 outside Pennsylvania ($18,386,780 minus $1,076,666). Use Surgeon donations for that remainder. Do not add the specialty cell to reconstruct a Pennsylvania surgical workforce.

One-word SURGEON next to a specialty spelling

Pennsylvania’s 227 Surgeon-coded donors and 352 Orthopaedic Surgeon-coded donors can overlap in real life if people used both strings across receipts. The aggregates do not publish that overlap. Adding $1,076,666 and $968,431 would treat the strings as disjoint professions and as a single workforce at the same time—both mistakes.

Use Surgeon donations for the $17,310,114 outside Pennsylvania. Use this page for the one-word title and PA. Leave board certification off the interpretation.

Questions

How much have Surgeon donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Surgeon and state Pennsylvania total $1,076,666, from 1,904 contributions and 227 donors. Nationwide, Surgeon-coded receipts are $18,386,780 from 56,508 contributions and 4,547 donors. Pennsylvania is about 5.9% of those dollars.

Does Surgeon include orthopaedic surgeons in Pennsylvania?

This join reports the SURGEON occupation slug only. ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON is a separate key with its own Pennsylvania tie ($968,431, 352 donors). FEC aggregates do not verify medical licenses. The 227 Pennsylvania donors used the one-word title.

Does Surgeon mean board-certified physicians?

SURGEON is the occupation text as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify board certification or hospital privileges. The 227 Pennsylvania donors and 4,547 national donors are people whose records used that word.

Is this money given to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. PA is the donor state on the contribution. The $1,076,666 can be received by any FEC-filing committee. This page does not break receipts by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.