ENGINEER

Engineer meeting the 2012 cycle

This page is the inner join of two dimensions. One is the grouped occupation string Engineer. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $1,755,710, built from 1,395 itemized gifts and 372 unique donors. The occupation hub drops the cycle filter; the cycle hub drops the occupation filter. Neither hub is this cell.

Average contribution is about $1,259; average per donor is about $4,720. Those means sit near ordinary itemized individual gifts. Volume, not a few giant checks, does most of the work in this cell.

Software engineer, civil engineer, and a firm name are separate groupings if stored separately. This cell is the one-word Engineer bucket.

Seven percent of a $24 million occupation stack

$24,337,583 is every cycle combined. $1,755,710 in 2012 is about 7.2% of that stack. Other windows hold a little less than 93%. A presidential-year cell at 7% is a noticeable chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history.

Lifetime scale here reflects how often the word appears on itemized individual receipts. It is not a Bureau of Labor Statistics headcount.

Questions

How much did Engineer-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Engineer grouping’s 2012 cell is $1,755,710 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,395 contributions and 372 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a professional-society PAC and not the $24,337,583 all-cycle total.

Does this count only licensed professional engineers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported occupation string Engineer. The FEC does not verify licenses or disciplines. Longer titles may sit in other groupings if the pipeline stored them separately. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

What share of Engineer FEC money fell in 2012?

About 7.2%. $1,755,710 divided by $24,337,583 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold the rest on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Do these donations fund federal engineering contracts?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.