Writer political contributions from Pennsylvania

Writer and Pennsylvania as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation WRITER and donor state PA produce $1,485,103, 5,813 contributions, and 189 donors. The occupation hub is $80,210,868, 312,329 contributions, and 8,768 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 1.9%; contribution share about 1.9% (5,813 of 312,329); donor share about 2.2% (189 of 8,768). One hundred eighty-nine Pennsylvania donors are about 2.2% of 8,768 national donors; 5,813 contributions are about 1.9% of 312,329 national rows; dollars are about 1.9% of $80,210,868.

AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, and EDITOR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Writer total. Do not stack WRITER with AUTHOR or JOURNALIST into a single Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

189 Pennsylvania donors produced 5,813 contributions, about 30.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.6 rows per donor nationally (312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Pennsylvania cell is about $255, against about $257 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s about 1.9% share of $80,210,868 from 189 people is a modest slice of a 312,329-row occupation, not a newsroom census.

WRITER as a creative-title string

WRITER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a byline, a union card, or a medium. One word on the form is the filter. The $80,210,868 national total is WRITER only. 8,768 donors produced 312,329 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 312,329 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Pennsylvania (PA). Eight thousand seven hundred sixty-eight national donors make WRITER a mid-size occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state PA.

Pennsylvania as the Writer state code

189 Pennsylvania donors produced 5,813 contributions totaling $1,485,103. 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 byline, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,485,103.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only WRITER. The Writer occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 98.1% of the $80,210,868. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to PA. WRITER is only this filter.

What the Writer–Pennsylvania join is not

This page does not count working writers, merge journalist dollars, or claim that Writer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. WRITER is not AUTHOR even when filers meant a published book.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. WRITER is not a guild extract. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Medium and outlet names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Writer filter

Subtract the Pennsylvania dollars on this page from the national WRITER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded WRITER in every other state combined. That remainder ($78,725,765) 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 189 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 5,813 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,485,103 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 WRITER national total, drops a key. One hundred eighty-nine donors producing 5,813 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,485,103 headline.

Related tables

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 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. ARTIST is a different occupation hub; Pennsylvania also has a Sales occupation-state tie in this slice.

Questions

How much have Writer donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation WRITER and state Pennsylvania total $1,485,103, from 5,813 contributions and 189 donors. Nationwide, WRITER-coded receipts are $80,210,868 from 312,329 contributions and 8,768 donors. Pennsylvania is about 1.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include Pennsylvania journalists?

No. This hub is the string WRITER. JOURNALIST and AUTHOR are other occupation buckets if those strings exist. State is PA. One hundred eighty-nine Pennsylvania donors used WRITER. The 189 Pennsylvania donors used occupation WRITER and state PA. Filers who wrote AUTHOR or EDITOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Writer FEC money is from Pennsylvania?

About 1.9% of the $80,210,868 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($1,485,103). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 1.9% of contributions (5,813 of 312,329) and about 2.2% of donors (189 of 8,768). About 1.9% of dollars from 189 of 8,768 donors and 5,813 of 312,329 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 $1,485,103 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.