Writer political contributions from Washington

Writer and Washington as a high-row occupation-state join

Occupation WRITER and donor state WA produce $2,206,011, 12,376 contributions, and 281 donors. The occupation hub is $80,210,868, 312,329 contributions, and 8,768 donors. Dollar, contribution, and donor shares cluster within a few points (2.8%, 4.0%, 3.2%). Washington tracks the national Writer mix rather than concentrating one of the three measures. Washington Writer contribution share sits above the dollar share on a high-row literary title.

Writer is a one-word literary title as typed. Nearby strings — AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, SCREENWRITER, and FREELANCE WRITER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $2,206,011 or $80,210,868. WRITER as a national label is contribution-heavy: hundreds of thousands of itemized rows.

281 Washington donors produced 12,376 contributions, about 44.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.6 rows per donor nationally (312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this Washington cell are about $7,851, versus about $9,148 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

WRITER as a stored title with no genre split

WRITER is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify bylines, union cards, or a Washington business license. The national grouping is 8,768 donors, 312,329 contributions, and $80,210,868.

312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. Washington’s 12,376 contributions from 281 donors is the WA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Washington.

Two hundred eighty-one Washington Writer donors

281 Washington donors produced 12,376 contributions totaling $2,206,011. Donor state WA is the address on the record, not proof of a Washington professional license, and not a limit to Washington candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only WRITER. Subtract $2,206,011 from $80,210,868 and $78,004,857 remains coded Writer in every other state combined (299,953 contributions, 8,487 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

A high-twos dollar slice of an $80 million Writer book

This page does not measure writer output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Writer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a WGA or NWU membership roll, not a Washington State newsroom census, and not a publishing-credit file.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state WA is not recipient geography.

Literary titles that stay unmerged

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $2,206,011, 12,376 contributions, and 281 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Washington dollars, or only the Writer national total, drops a key.

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 national occupation total. Washington 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. AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, SCREENWRITER, is a different occupation string if a filer used it.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. WRITER as a national label is contribution-heavy: hundreds of thousands of itemized rows.

Related FEC tables for Writer and Washington

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 national occupation total. Washington 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.

Questions

How much have Writer donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Writer and state Washington total $2,206,011, from 12,376 contributions and 281 donors. Nationwide, Writer-coded receipts are $80,210,868 from 312,329 contributions and 8,768 donors. Washington is 2.8% of those dollars.

Does Writer include journalists and authors in Washington?

This join uses the string WRITER only. Author, Journalist, and Screenwriter are other occupation keys if filers used those words. The FEC file does not recode them into WRITER. Washington’s donors sit in that undifferentiated bucket. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov.

What share of Writer FEC money is from Washington?

2.8% of the $80,210,868 occupation total is in this Washington join ($2,206,011). Washington also accounts for 4.0% of contributions (12,376 of 312,329) and 3.2% of donors (281 of 8,768). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to Washington candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,206,011 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source.