What civil-engineer donors give in federal races

Broad donor pool, a $233 mean

$7,540,113, 32,364 itemizations, and 1,700 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $233. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,435. Repeat giving is about 19 itemizations per donor record.

32,364 lines from 1,700 records is a mid-to-high volume engineering-title stack. The $233 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume. The packet has no PE field, no public-versus-private split, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average.

1,700 donor records on 32,364 lines is a broad engineering pool: about 19 itemizations per record. The $233 per-line mean sits between PROPERTY MANAGER and LAW PROFESSOR. The packet has no PE-license field, no public-versus-private split, and no party flag, so $7,540,113 cannot be read as a licensed-civil-engineer census.

CIVIL ENGINEER is not ENGINEER

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds a professional-engineer license. Students, technicians, retirees, and people using a related engineering title can sit on other keys. Best-efforts rules do not force an ABET taxonomy.

This page cites only $7,540,113, 32,364 contributions, and 1,700 donors. ENGINEER, STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, and CONSULTING ENGINEER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them. Combining those strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC occupation to a homemade cluster.

Donor records and dual engineering titles

1,700 donor records used CIVIL ENGINEER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed CIVIL ENGINEER on some gifts and ENGINEER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or project type from the two-word string. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $7,540,113.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 32,364 lines are occupation-side totals only. Refunds, redesignations, and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Do not treat $7,540,113 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Industry pages group firms, not this title

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A municipal engineer and a consulting-firm engineer share this occupation string if they typed CIVIL ENGINEER. Adding $7,540,113 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the CIVIL ENGINEER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to ENGINEER and other specialty titles.

CIVIL ENGINEER dollars of $7,540,113 sit on 32,364 itemizations from 1,700 donor records. The two-word specialty is not a PE-license extract and is stored separately from ENGINEER. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code and never enter this total.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals CIVIL ENGINEER, dollars equal $7,540,113, contributions equal 32,364, donors equal 1,700, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Quote the three facts together so the mid-range mean is visible next to the headline dollars. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules.

Reading CIVIL ENGINEER as a specialty two-word key

CIVIL ENGINEER in this extract is $7,540,113 on 32,364 itemizations from 1,700 donor records, or $7.5 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. People who type PE, ENGINEER, or STRUCTURAL ENGINEER may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact CIVIL ENGINEER key is in $7,540,113.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $233 per contribution and about $4,435 per donor record, with roughly 19 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 1,700 donor records on 32,364 lines is a mid-to-high volume specialty pool, not a census of licensed civil engineers.

Industry pages should not be added to $7,540,113. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals CIVIL ENGINEER, dollars equal $7,540,113, contributions equal 32,364, donors equal 1,700.

CIVIL ENGINEER and ENGINEER can describe overlapping people in ordinary speech and remain separate FEC strings. This page is only CIVIL ENGINEER: $7,540,113, 32,364 contributions, 1,700 donors. A homemade engineering cluster that adds ENGINEER without naming each source total is a different unit than this occupation page.

Questions

How much have civil-engineer donors given in FEC data?

The CIVIL ENGINEER occupation string is attached to $7,540,113 across 32,364 contributions and 1,700 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of licensed PEs. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does CIVIL ENGINEER include the generic ENGINEER key?

Only if those donors typed CIVIL ENGINEER. ENGINEER is a separate key unless the extract merged them. This page covers CIVIL ENGINEER: $7,540,113, 32,364 contributions, and 1,700 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average civil-engineer contribution?

Dividing $7,540,113 by 32,364 itemizations yields about $233 per contribution. Dividing by 1,700 donors yields about $4,435 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 19 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing civil engineer prove a PE license?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify professional-engineer credentials. Quote 32,364 contributions and 1,700 donor records with the $7,540,113 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.