Teacher political contributions from Pennsylvania

How occupation Teacher meets donor state Pennsylvania

Occupation TEACHER and donor state PA produce $2,827,659, 25,132 contributions, and 625 donors. The occupation hub is $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, and 18,758 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 3.1%; contribution share about 3.0% (25,132 of 831,593); donor share about 3.3% (625 of 18,758). Six hundred twenty-five Pennsylvania donors are about 3.3% of 18,758 national donors; 25,132 contributions are about 3.0% of 831,593 national rows; dollars are about 3.1% of $92,518,340.

EDUCATOR, PROFESSOR, and TEACHER/EDUCATOR, 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 Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

625 Pennsylvania donors produced 25,132 contributions, about 40.2 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 Pennsylvania cell is about $113, against about $111 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s about 3.1% share of $92,518,340 sits inside a very high-row occupation (831,593 contributions from 18,758 donors).

TEACHER as a workplace-title string

TEACHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Pennsylvania teaching certificate, a district, or a grade band. One 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 Pennsylvania (PA). 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 PA.

Pennsylvania as donor state

625 Pennsylvania donors produced 25,132 contributions totaling $2,827,659. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. PA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Pennsylvania classroom, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,827,659.

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

What not to infer from Teacher plus Pennsylvania

This page does not count certified teachers, merge EDUCATOR 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 and not EDUCATOR even when filers meant school work. High row counts (25,132) can be many small itemized gifts.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. TEACHER is not a Pennsylvania certification extract. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Certificate numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Teacher filter

Subtract the Pennsylvania 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 ($89,690,681) 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 625 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 25,132 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,827,659 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the TEACHER national total, drops a key. Six hundred twenty-five donors producing 25,132 contributions totaling $2,827,659 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Teacher donations holds the $92,518,340 national occupation total. Pennsylvania 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. EDUCATOR and PROFESSOR are different occupation hubs if those strings exist.

Questions

How much have Teacher donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation TEACHER and state Pennsylvania total $2,827,659, from 25,132 contributions and 625 donors. Nationwide, TEACHER-coded receipts are $92,518,340 from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donors. Pennsylvania is about 3.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these certified Pennsylvania teachers?

The FEC file does not verify certificates. Occupation is the string TEACHER and state is PA. Six hundred twenty-five donors are not a certification roster. Filers who wrote EDUCATOR may sit in another bucket. The 625 Pennsylvania donors used occupation TEACHER and state PA. 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 Pennsylvania?

About 3.1% of the $92,518,340 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($2,827,659). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 3.0% of contributions (25,132 of 831,593) and about 3.3% of donors (625 of 18,758). About 3.1% of dollars from 625 of 18,758 donors and 25,132 of 831,593 contributions.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,827,659 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to PA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.