Teacher political contributions from Michigan

Teacher and Michigan as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation TEACHER and donor state MI produce $2,047,863, 16,406 contributions, and 444 donors. The occupation hub is $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, and 18,758 donors. Michigan’s dollar share is about 2.2%; contribution share about 2.0% (16,406 of 831,593); donor share about 2.4% (444 of 18,758). Four hundred forty-four Michigan donors are about 2.4% of 18,758 national donors; 16,406 contributions are about 2.0% of 831,593 national rows; dollars are about 2.2% of $92,518,340.

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

444 Michigan donors produced 16,406 contributions, about 37.0 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 Michigan cell is about $125, against about $111 nationwide. Michigan’s about 2.2% dollar share from 16,406 rows is a high-repeat professional slice of an 831,593-row occupation.

TEACHER as a school-title string

TEACHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Michigan teaching certificate, a district payroll, or a grade level. The word on the form is the filter. 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 Michigan (MI). Eighteen thousand seven hundred fifty-eight national donors make TEACHER a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MI.

Michigan as the Teacher donor-state stamp

444 Michigan donors produced 16,406 contributions totaling $2,047,863. Donor state MI is the address on the record, not proof of a Michigan license, and not a limit to Michigan candidates. MI is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Michigan classroom, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,047,863.

The Michigan campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MI. This join is only TEACHER. The Teacher occupation hub without Michigan still holds about 97.8% of the $92,518,340. Michigan’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MI. TEACHER is only this filter.

What the Teacher–Michigan join is not

This page does not count licensed teachers, add Maryland 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 PROFESSOR even when filers meant a classroom job. This cell is not the Maryland Teacher pair.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Michigan Teacher filter

Subtract the Michigan 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 ($90,470,477) 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 444 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 16,406 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,047,863 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Michigan dollars, or only the TEACHER national total, drops a key. Four hundred forty-four donors producing 16,406 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,047,863 headline.

Related tables

Teacher donations holds the $92,518,340 national occupation total. Michigan 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. Maryland has a separate Teacher occupation-state tie in this same slice; those 17,597 contributions are a different pair.

Questions

How much have Teacher donors in Michigan given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation TEACHER and state Michigan total $2,047,863, from 16,406 contributions and 444 donors. Nationwide, TEACHER-coded receipts are $92,518,340 from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donors. Michigan is about 2.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the Maryland Teacher page?

No. This join is TEACHER and state MI. The Maryland cell is a different pair. Four hundred forty-four Michigan donors produced 16,406 gifts totaling $2,047,863. The 444 Michigan donors used occupation TEACHER and state MI. 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 Michigan?

About 2.2% of the $92,518,340 occupation total is in this Michigan join ($2,047,863). Michigan also accounts for about 2.0% of contributions (16,406 of 831,593) and about 2.4% of donors (444 of 18,758). About 2.2% of dollars from 444 of 18,758 donors and 16,406 of 831,593 contributions.

Does this money go to Michigan candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Michigan. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,047,863 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MI; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.