What DEVELOPER donors give in federal races

One word covering more than one trade

$33,583,908, 36,924 itemizations, and 3,717 donor records describe this occupation filter. Mean contribution size is about $910. Mean dollars per donor record is about $9,035. Repeat giving is about 10 itemizations per donor record.

Those means sit above many high-volume professional labels. They do not tell you whether the donor builds buildings or software. The packet has no employer cross-tab.

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER is a longer, more specific key on another page. This overlay does not add that key to $33,583,908.

Not a NAICS industry and not a license

Occupation is self-reported free text, not a Census industry code. Software developers and real-estate developers share this string if they typed DEVELOPER. Industry pages group employer categories and should not be treated as a substitute for this filter.

This page cites only $33,583,908, 36,924 contributions, and 3,717 donors. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

Donor-record limits

3,717 donor records used DEVELOPER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed DEVELOPER on some gifts and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

LobbyVault does not infer party from the noun. Recipient committees are a different join.

Why the contribution count belongs in the sentence

36,924 lines under $33.6 million is a mid-volume file. Quoting only the dollars can sound like a handful of large development checks. The line count is the corrective, even without a gift-size distribution.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

Where to read neighboring keys

Open the DEVELOPER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER and software-related titles as separate keys with their own packet facts.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Quote occupation equals DEVELOPER, then the three numbers.

Buildings and software under the same occupation word

DEVELOPER in this extract is $33,583,908 on 36,924 itemizations from 3,717 donor records, or $33.6 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. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. Employer text is the usual way to split real-estate development from software. This packet has no employer cross-tab, so the split is not in these facts. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $910 per contribution and about $9,035 per donor record, with roughly 10 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER and software-related titles remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to DEVELOPER. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. About $910 per line from 3,717 donor records sits above many high-volume trades and still describes one exact string, not a sector.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $33,583,908. A person who listed DEVELOPER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines, because occupation is stored per transaction. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals DEVELOPER, dollars equal $33,583,908, contributions equal 36,924, donors equal 3,717. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($33.6 million) are the same headline amount as $33,583,908, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see whether DEVELOPER is a high-volume stack, a concentrated pool, or a high-repeat status label. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have DEVELOPER donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list DEVELOPER sum to $33,583,908 across 36,924 contributions and 3,717 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a real-estate license roster and not a software-job census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER included in this total?

No. REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER is a separate occupation string with its own facts. This page covers DEVELOPER only: $33,583,908, 36,924 contributions, and 3,717 donors. Name both keys if you add them. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does DEVELOPER mean software or real estate?

The FEC occupation column does not say. The same string can cover both. This packet has no employer split. Quote 36,924 contributions and 3,717 donor records with the $33,583,908 headline. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average DEVELOPER contribution?

Dividing $33,583,908 by 36,924 itemizations yields about $910 per contribution. Dividing by 3,717 donors yields about $9,035 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.