Writer political contributions from Massachusetts

WRITER crossed with Massachusetts

Occupation WRITER plus contributor state Massachusetts produces $3,836,932. That is about 5% of $80,210,868 nationally. Massachusetts’s 20,444 contributions are about 7% of 312,329. Its 490 donors are about 6% of 8,768. Receipt share slightly leads dollar share: Massachusetts writers-as-filed give more often, at a slightly lower average, than the occupation’s national mix.

Average itemized gift in the Massachusetts join is about $188 ($3,836,932 / 20,444). Author, journalist, and novelist are not merged in. This page is the exact WRITER bucket.

Twenty thousand four hundred forty-four Massachusetts WRITER gifts are about 7% of 312,329 nationally, above the 5% dollar share of $80,210,868. Four hundred ninety of 8,768 donors is about 6%. Receipts run a little ahead of dollars. Author and journalist stay out. TEACHER and SOFTWARE ENGINEER are other MA joins, not literary subsets.

WRITER as a national occupation

Eight thousand seven hundred sixty-eight donors used WRITER on itemized receipts totaling $80,210,868 across 312,329 gifts. Contribution count is high relative to donor count, so repeat itemization is the rule. The word can mean freelance work, staff writing, or a self-description; the FEC does not classify genres or employers.

Most WRITER dollars sit outside Massachusetts ($80,210,868 minus $3,836,932). A state with a publishing and university cluster can still be a single-digit share of this exact string. The occupation hub is the full 8,768-donor series.

Four hundred ninety Massachusetts donors

Four hundred ninety Massachusetts donors produced 20,444 WRITER-tagged contributions totaling $3,836,932. Receipts per donor are high. The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub places WRITER beside teacher, lawyer, and other MA occupations so a literary label is sized against the rest of the state’s itemized giving.

Contributor state is the address on the receipt. A writer who lives in Massachusetts and works for an out-of-state outlet still appears here. A Massachusetts-born writer who files from another state does not.

Publishing and university employment in ordinary speech do not substitute for contributor state. A writer who lives in New Hampshire and works in Cambridge is absent unless the receipt lists MA. Keep $3,836,932, 20,444 gifts, and 490 donors together. Recipients remain committee-level.

What a writer label does not show

These figures are federal individual contributions, not royalties and not a measure of cultural output. The join does not say Massachusetts writers funded Massachusetts candidates. Occupation is not causation. $3,836,932 is labeled itemized giving.

Use the occupations index for author and journalist variants, and the ties index for other occupation–state cells. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Parent hubs

See Writer donations for the $80,210,868 national total, Massachusetts campaign finance for all MA occupations, the occupations index for related literary titles, and all FEC ties for other joins.

A literary string beside other Massachusetts occupations

Massachusetts WRITER at $3,836,932 from 490 donors and 20,444 gifts is about 5% of $80,210,868 nationally and about 7% of 312,329 contributions. Receipt share leads dollar share. Average gift about $188. TEACHER and SOFTWARE ENGINEER are higher-count MA joins; GENERAL COUNSEL is the concentrated legal cell. WRITER is the modest literary cut.

Author and journalist remain separate if those pages exist. Genre, employer, and staff-versus-freelance status are not in the aggregate. The 490 keys used WRITER. Nationally 8,768 donors used the word; 8,278 of them are not in this Massachusetts cell.

Four hundred ninety Massachusetts donors, 20,444 gifts, $3,836,932, about 5% of $80,210,868 and about 7% of 312,329 contributions. Average gift about $188. Author and journalist stay out if they used those words. TEACHER and SOFTWARE ENGINEER are larger MA joins; GENERAL COUNSEL is the concentrated legal cell. WRITER is the modest literary cut of 8,768 national donors.

Questions

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

Donors listing occupation WRITER with a Massachusetts address reported $3,836,932 in itemized individual contributions, from 490 donors and 20,444 receipts. That is about 5% of the $80,210,868 recorded nationally under WRITER. The total is not a census of Massachusetts authors.

Are authors and journalists included?

Only if the occupation field says WRITER. Author and journalist are separate occupation pages if those strings appear in the index. National WRITER is $80,210,868 from 8,768 donors; this Massachusetts join is the subset with contributor state MA.

How does Massachusetts compare with the national Writer total?

Massachusetts is about 5% of dollars ($3,836,932 of $80,210,868), about 7% of contributions (20,444 of 312,329), and about 6% of donors (490 of 8,768). Average itemized gift in the join is about $188. Most WRITER money is attributed to other states.

Did these contributions go to Massachusetts candidates?

The join filters donor state and occupation, not recipient. A Massachusetts-addressed WRITER can give to any FEC committee. Tracing the $3,836,932 from 490 donors and 20,444 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.