Teacher political contributions from Florida

Teacher and Florida as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation TEACHER and donor state FL produce $2,883,743, 26,411 contributions, and 656 donors. The occupation hub is $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, and 18,758 donors. Florida’s dollar share is about 3.1%; contribution share about 3.2% (26,411 of 831,593); donor share about 3.5% (656 of 18,758). Six hundred fifty-six Florida donors are about 3.5% of 18,758 national donors; 26,411 contributions are about 3.2% of 831,593 national rows; dollars are about 3.1% of $92,518,340.

EDUCATOR, PROFESSOR, and INSTRUCTOR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Teacher total. Do not stack TEACHER with EDUCATOR or INSTRUCTOR into a single Florida professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

656 Florida donors produced 26,411 contributions, about 40.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 44.3 rows per donor nationally (831,593 contributions from 18,758 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Florida cell is about $109, against about $111 nationwide. Florida’s about 3.1% share of $92,518,340 from 26,411 rows tracks the national mix more closely than the New Jersey Teacher cell’s 5.0% contribution share.

TEACHER as a classroom-title string

TEACHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Florida teaching certificate, a county payroll, or a charter versus district setting. The $92,518,340 national total is TEACHER only. 18,758 donors produced 831,593 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 831,593 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Florida (FL). Eight hundred thirty-one thousand five hundred ninety-three national contributions make TEACHER a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state FL.

Florida as the reported address

656 Florida donors produced 26,411 contributions totaling $2,883,743. Donor state FL is the address on the record, not proof of a Florida license, and not a limit to Florida candidates. FL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Florida classroom, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,883,743.

The Florida campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to FL. This join is only TEACHER. The Teacher occupation hub without Florida still holds about 96.9% of the $92,518,340. Florida’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to FL. TEACHER is only this filter.

What the Teacher–Florida join is not

This page does not count licensed teachers, add New Jersey Teacher dollars, or claim that Teacher-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. TEACHER is not EDUCATOR even when filers meant a school job. This cell is not the New Jersey Teacher pair.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. TEACHER is not a Florida DOE extract. Donor state FL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. School names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Florida Teacher filter

Subtract the Florida dollars on this page from the national TEACHER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded TEACHER in every other state combined. That remainder ($89,634,597) 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 656 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 26,411 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,883,743 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Florida dollars, or only the TEACHER national total, drops a key. Six hundred fifty-six donors producing 26,411 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,883,743 headline.

Related tables

Teacher donations holds the $92,518,340 national occupation total. Florida 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. New Jersey has a separate Teacher occupation-state tie in this same slice; those 41,254 contributions are a different pair.

Questions

How much have Teacher donors in Florida given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation TEACHER and state Florida total $2,883,743, from 26,411 contributions and 656 donors. Nationwide, TEACHER-coded receipts are $92,518,340 from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donors. Florida is about 3.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the New Jersey Teacher page?

No. This join is TEACHER and state FL. The New Jersey cell is a different pair. Six hundred fifty-six Florida donors produced 26,411 gifts totaling $2,883,743. The 656 Florida donors used occupation TEACHER and state FL. Filers who wrote EDUCATOR or PROFESSOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Teacher FEC money is from Florida?

About 3.1% of the $92,518,340 occupation total is in this Florida join ($2,883,743). Florida also accounts for about 3.2% of contributions (26,411 of 831,593) and about 3.5% of donors (656 of 18,758). About 3.1% of dollars from 656 of 18,758 donors and 26,411 of 831,593 contributions.

Does this money go to Florida candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Florida. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,883,743 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to FL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.