What engineering manager donors give in federal races

Dollars, lines, and people

$6,757,668 is the occupation-level dollar total. 24,335 is the itemization count. 757 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $278 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $8,927 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 32 itemizations per donor record. Twenty-four thousand-plus lines from 757 donor records usually means recurring gifts, multi-committee giving, or both—not a thin stack of outsized checks.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $278 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Payroll-style small itemizations and bundled earmarks can each add lines. This guide does not assign a share to those mechanisms because the packet has no mechanism split.

Manager versus engineer strings

ENGINEERING MANAGER is a rank-plus-function label. Rows tagged ENGINEER, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, or ENGINEERING DIRECTOR do not join this total. People who change titles across cycles will split across occupation pages.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals ENGINEERING MANAGER after indexing. ENGINEER, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, and ENGINEERING DIRECTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ENGINEERING MANAGER.

What 757 donor records can and cannot show

757 donor records used ENGINEERING MANAGER on at least one matching itemization. A non-engineer who manages an engineering org may type this string, and a licensed engineer who manages a team may type ENGINEER instead. FEC.gov does not adjudicate.

A person who listed ENGINEERING MANAGER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Occupation is not an engineering industry total

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Engineering managers work in defense, software, construction, and energy. Do not read this total as a tech-industry figure or a federal-contractor figure. Adding $6,757,668 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the ENGINEERING MANAGER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $6,757,668.

How to cite the engineering manager key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: ENGINEERING MANAGER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,757,668 on 24,335 contributions from 757 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Occupation remains a search facet on public records, not a PE license list.

Treating ENGINEERING MANAGER as rank-plus-function text

ENGINEERING MANAGER in this extract is $6,757,668 on 24,335 itemizations from 757 donor records, or $6.8 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. A state engineering board can list who may stamp drawings. FEC itemizations list whoever typed ENGINEERING MANAGER. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $278 per contribution and about $8,927 per donor record, with roughly 32 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. ENGINEER, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, and ENGINEERING DIRECTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ENGINEERING MANAGER. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $6,757,668. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ENGINEERING MANAGER, dollars equal $6,757,668, contributions equal 24,335, donors equal 757. 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 ($6.8 million) are the same headline amount as $6,757,668, 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 the shape of ENGINEERING MANAGER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have engineering manager donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ENGINEERING MANAGER sum to $6,757,668 across 24,335 contributions and 757 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why so many contributions from 757 donors?

The index lists 24,335 lines against 757 people, about 32 lines per record. Repeat itemizations are the norm. Dividing $6,757,668 by lines yields about $278 per contribution, a mean rather than a typical check. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Are software engineering managers included?

Only if the occupation field is exactly ENGINEERING MANAGER. A donor listed as software engineering manager is a different key. This page is $6,757,668, 24,335 lines, and 757 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where is the source data?

FEC.gov bulk schedules. LobbyVault indexes matching occupation text on the ENGINEERING MANAGER occupation page. The occupation total is $6,757,668. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.