IT

High-frequency receipts on two letters

$5,736,483 is the occupation-level dollar total. 50,708 is the itemization count. 1,389 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $113 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,130 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 37 itemizations per donor record. Fifty thousand-plus lines from 1,389 donor records is a high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a modest mean dollars per line.

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 $113 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

A two-letter occupation is a coarse bucket. Help-desk staff, systems administrators, and people who work in an IT department can all land here—or on longer strings that never join this total.

Why the IT label is noisy

Some donors write IT; others write INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY or IT PROFESSIONAL. FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. LobbyVault does not merge them.

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 IT after indexing. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, IT MANAGER, and SOFTWARE ENGINEER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to IT.

Questions

How much have it donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list IT sum to $5,736,483 across 50,708 contributions and 1,389 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.

Is software engineer included in the IT total?

No. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is a different occupation key. This page covers IT only: $5,736,483, 50,708 contributions, and 1,389 donors. Combining them would invent a combined tech total the packet does not contain. 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.

Why are there 50,708 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,389 donor records add rows. About 37 lines per record and about $113 per contribution are means on $5,736,483. 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.

Does this total represent the tech industry?

No. It is one two-letter occupation string. Tech employees use many other titles. Industry pages group employer-side data. The occupation total remains $5,736,483. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.