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SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Total Donated

$64,582,668

Contributions

353,424

Unique Donors

10,853

Contributors who listed SOFTWARE ENGINEER as occupation posted $64,582,668 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those dollars arrived in 353,424 contributions from 10,853 donor records. The two-word title is stored apart from ENGINEER. Combining them without labeling the sum would mix keys the bulk file kept separate. In compact form that dollar total is $64.6 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER occupation itemizations sum to $64,582,668 from 353,424 contributions and 10,853 donors.
  • Repeat itemizing is about 33 contributions per donor record; mean line size is about $183.
  • ENGINEER is a separate occupation key in the same FEC extract.
  • The title is self-reported text, not an employer engineering-roster match.

High repeat itemizing at a modest line size

353,424 itemizations from 10,853 donors is about 33 contributions per donor record, similar in frequency to the ENGINEER key. $64,582,668 divided by lines is about $183 per contribution, close to ENGINEER’s mean line in this harvest. Divided by donors, the mean is about $5,951 per donor record.

The similarity in means does not make the keys the same people. A donor who wrote ENGINEER is on the ENGINEER page. A donor who wrote SOFTWARE ENGINEER is here: $64,582,668, 353,424 contributions, 10,853 donors.

Developer, programmer, and SWE are other strings if that is what appeared after normalization. They are not in this sum unless they matched SOFTWARE ENGINEER.

Self-reporting in tech titles

The FEC does not verify GitHub profiles or employer engineering ladders. Retired engineers, students who typed the title, and managers who kept an old title may all appear. Best-efforts collection records the donor’s words.

A software engineer who listed ENGINEER, CONSULTANT, or FOUNDER on other gifts appears in those occupation totals for those lines.

Full analysis: SOFTWARE ENGINEER occupation in FEC bulk data →

Questions

How much have SOFTWARE ENGINEER donors given?
Occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER is attached to $64,582,668 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 353,424 contributions and 10,853 donor records. ENGINEER is a separate string and is not included. 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; this packet is the harvested occupation key.
Is SOFTWARE ENGINEER rolled into ENGINEER?
No. They are different occupation keys. This page covers SOFTWARE ENGINEER only: $64,582,668, 353,424 contributions, and 10,853 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; this packet is the harvested occupation key.
Why are there so many software-engineer itemizations?
353,424 contributions from 10,853 donors implies about 33 itemizations per donor record. Repeat giving raises the line count. Mean line size is about $183. 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; this packet is the harvested occupation key.
Does this total include all tech workers?
No. Only lines that normalized to SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Product managers, designers, and donors who wrote ENGINEER are in other keys. The matching contribution count is 353,424 and the matching donor-record count is 10,853. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

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