ENGINEER

Engineer as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Engineer and 2008 — sum to $1,362,295. 1,384 itemized contributions and 425 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Engineer hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Engineer is a self-reported title, not a PE-license roster. Four hundred twenty-five donors and 1,384 lines in 2008 matched that word. Software, civil, and mechanical titles that added a modifier sit in other keys. Named firms typed as employer sit on firm pages. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, CIVIL ENGINEER, PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, and named engineering firms are other keys. This page is the one-word Engineer string.

5.6% of the Engineer roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $24,337,583 ($24.3 million). The 2008 slice of $1,362,295 is about 5.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.4% ($22,975,288). Treating 2008 as the Engineer FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $24,337,583 as the denominator for the 5.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $24,337,583.

Questions

How much did Engineer donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,362,295 in itemized individual contributions for the Engineer grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,384 contributions and 425 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $24,337,583 all-cycle figure.

What share of Engineer FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $24,337,583. The 2008 cell of $1,362,295 is about 5.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.4% ($22,975,288) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Engineer hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Engineer donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Engineer. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,362,295 from 425 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Engineer 2008 join?

Open Engineer 2008 for the cycle overlay, Engineer for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.