ENGINEERING MANAGER

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.

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.