What SOFTWARE DEVELOPER donors give in federal races

High repeat rate on a mid-size pool

$16,793,605 is the occupation-level dollar total. 92,777 is the itemization count. 2,757 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $181. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,091. Repeat giving is about 34 itemizations per donor record.

92,777 lines from 2,757 records is a high-repeat pattern: a modest engineering-title pool generating many schedules. The per-line mean of about $181 is closer to other tech-title keys with frequent small gifts than to concentrated investor titles.

These means are not typical-check estimates and not a measure of software salaries allocated to politics. The packet has no employer field and no gift-size distribution.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is not SOFTWARE ENGINEER

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DEVELOPER, PROGRAMMER, and ENGINEER are neighboring occupation keys. This page cites only SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: $16,793,605, 92,777 contributions, and 2,757 donors. Those other strings stay outside the total unless the bulk extract normalized them here.

The FEC does not verify GitHub profiles, CS degrees, or job ladders. Staff engineers who typed developer, contractors, and people who code as a side occupation can all appear. Occupation is the donor’s word on that line.

What the dollars do not measure

$16,793,605 is not a tech-industry PAC total and not a FAANG employee census. Industry pages group employers. A developer at a bank and a developer at a startup share this occupation string if they typed SOFTWARE DEVELOPER.

Party is not stored in the occupation column. Open the SOFTWARE DEVELOPER occupation page for recipient rows. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $16.8 million.

Using the hub

Cite $16,793,605, 92,777 contributions, and 2,757 donors together. A sentence that shows only the dollars hides that the money arrived in 92,777 pieces. Use the occupations index to compare SOFTWARE DEVELOPER with SOFTWARE ENGINEER without merging them.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Limits

2,757 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Extra words (senior software developer, full stack software developer) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to SOFTWARE DEVELOPER.

Do not treat about 34 itemizations per donor record as a typical giving cadence for all developers. It is an arithmetic ratio on this exact string.

Engineering-title volume without a headcount match

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER in this extract is $16,793,605 on 92,777 itemizations from 2,757 donor records. About 34 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. Mean line size is about $181; mean dollars per donor record are about $6,091. SOFTWARE ENGINEER and DEVELOPER remain other hubs.

Industry pages for information technology will not equal $16,793,605. A person who listed SOFTWARE DEVELOPER on some gifts and SOFTWARE ENGINEER on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, dollars equal $16,793,605, contributions equal 92,777, donors equal 2,757. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Compact millions ($16.8 million) are the same headline amount as $16,793,605, rounded to one decimal place.

92,777 itemizations is the number that explains how $16.8 million accumulated on a mean line of about $181. Senior software developer and full-stack hybrids create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to SOFTWARE DEVELOPER. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Harvested facts have no cycle year.

2,757 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching and not a tech-headcount census. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only. Use the occupations index to compare SOFTWARE DEVELOPER with SOFTWARE ENGINEER without merging them. Quote the exact string, then $16,793,605, 92,777 contributions, and 2,757 donors, and stop.

Staff engineers who typed developer land here; those who typed SOFTWARE ENGINEER land on the other hub. This page is $16,793,605 on 92,777 itemizations from 2,757 donor records. About 34 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. Employer headcount is not matched. Keep the two tech titles separate.

GitHub profiles are not in the packet. 2,757 donor records is not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Restate the citation as occupation equals SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, dollars equal $16,793,605, contributions equal 92,777, donors equal 2,757.

Questions

How much have SOFTWARE DEVELOPER donors given in FEC records?

Occupation SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is attached to $16,793,605 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 92,777 contributions and 2,757 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a tech-headcount census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is SOFTWARE ENGINEER included in SOFTWARE DEVELOPER?

No. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is a separate occupation string. This page covers SOFTWARE DEVELOPER only: $16,793,605, 92,777 contributions, and 2,757 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters.

Why are there so many SOFTWARE DEVELOPER contributions?

92,777 itemizations from 2,757 donors implies about 34 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $181. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing SOFTWARE DEVELOPER include programmers?

Only if they typed SOFTWARE DEVELOPER. PROGRAMMER and DEVELOPER are other keys unless the bulk extract normalized them here. Quote 92,777 contributions and 2,757 donor records with the $16,793,605 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.