Teacher political contributions from Massachusetts

TEACHER crossed with Massachusetts

Occupation TEACHER plus contributor state Massachusetts yields $5,189,658. That is about 6% of $92,518,340 nationally. Massachusetts’s 34,087 contributions are about 4% of 831,593. Its 875 donors are about 5% of 18,758. Dollar share slightly exceeds receipt share, but both are small fractions of a very large series. This is the opposite of a rare-title concentration cell.

Average itemized gift in the Massachusetts join is about $152 ($5,189,658 / 34,087). Nationally, 831,593 gifts from 18,758 donors already describe a high-repeat, modest-size pattern. Massachusetts follows that pattern at state scale. Educator, professor, and teacher’s aide are not merged in.

Thirty-four thousand eighty-seven Massachusetts TEACHER gifts are about 4% of 831,593 nationally. That receipt share sits under the 6% dollar share of $92,518,340. The occupation’s 18,758 donors dwarf the 875 in this join. Mass titles produce modest state slices; this is one of them.

TEACHER as a mass national label

Eighteen thousand seven hundred fifty-eight donors used TEACHER on itemized receipts totaling $92,518,340 across 831,593 gifts. Contribution count is extreme relative to donor count, which is typical when many people give repeatedly across committees and reporting periods, often in modest itemized amounts.

Most TEACHER dollars sit outside Massachusetts ($92,518,340 minus $5,189,658). The occupation is geographically spread. A state known for education employment can still be a single-digit share of this exact string.

Eight hundred seventy-five Massachusetts donors

Eight hundred seventy-five Massachusetts donors produced 34,087 TEACHER-tagged contributions totaling $5,189,658. Receipts per donor are high, matching the national shape. The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub places TEACHER beside lawyer, writer, and other MA occupations so a common job word is sized against the rest of the state’s itemized giving.

K–12, college, and private-instruction jobs can all collapse into TEACHER as typed. Employer and level of school are not in this aggregate. Contributor state is the address on the receipt, not the district that employs the person.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER and WRITER also have Massachusetts ties on this site. Those are other occupations, not subsets of TEACHER. The Massachusetts hub is where a reader sizes $5,189,658 against the rest of the state’s itemized giving. The TEACHER occupation hub is where a reader sizes Massachusetts against 17,883 donors who are not in this join (18,758 minus 875).

What a teacher label does not show

These figures are federal individual contributions, not union PAC activity and not Massachusetts state campaign filings. The join does not say teachers as a class funded a ticket or that education policy caused the gifts. Recipient committees are outside the two-field filter.

Self-reported titles split people who teach. Use the occupations index for professor and educator variants, and the ties index for other occupation–state cells. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

See Teacher donations for the $92,518,340 national series, Massachusetts campaign finance for all MA occupations, the occupations index for related education titles, and all FEC ties for other joins.

Mass occupations and modest state shares

Massachusetts TEACHER at $5,189,658 from 875 donors and 34,087 gifts is about 6% of $92,518,340 nationally. The occupation is huge: 18,758 donors and 831,593 gifts. A state known for education employment can still be a single-digit slice of this exact word. Professor and educator would be other slices. They are not added.

Average gift about $152 with 34,087 receipts is the small-repeat pattern. Union PAC spending is a different filing stream and is not inside the $5,189,658. Personal itemized gifts tagged TEACHER with a MA address are the whole join.

Eight hundred seventy-five Massachusetts donors and 34,087 gifts totaling $5,189,658 are a small slice of 18,758 donors and 831,593 gifts totaling $92,518,340. Average gift about $152 is the mass-occupation signature. Professor is another page. Union PAC filings are another system. Personal TEACHER-tagged receipts with a MA address are the only thing this join adds up.

Questions

How much did Massachusetts Teacher donors give according to the FEC?

Donors listing occupation TEACHER with a Massachusetts address reported $5,189,658 in itemized individual contributions, from 875 donors and 34,087 receipts. That is about 6% of the $92,518,340 recorded nationally under TEACHER. The total is not a count of Massachusetts teachers or a union-PAC total.

Why are there so many contributions relative to the dollar total?

Massachusetts has 34,087 of 831,593 TEACHER contributions and $5,189,658 of $92,518,340. Average itemized gift in the join is about $152. A high-volume occupation produces many modest receipts. Repeat giving by 875 donors also inflates contribution counts. That is the shape of the filter, not a typical household budget.

Are professors included in Teacher totals?

Only if the occupation field says TEACHER. Professor and educator are separate occupation pages. National TEACHER is $92,518,340 from 18,758 donors; this Massachusetts join is $5,189,658 from 875 donors with contributor state MA The packet totals for this join remain the occupation–state filter described above, with no extra dollar figures beyond those facts.

Did these contributions go to Massachusetts candidates?

The join filters donor state and occupation, not recipient. A Massachusetts-addressed TEACHER can give to any FEC committee. Tracing the $5,189,658 from 34,087 receipts requires committee-level receipts The packet totals for this join remain the occupation–state filter described above, with no extra dollar figures beyond those facts.