Developer political money in the 2010 FEC cycle

How the Developer × 2010 join is built

LobbyVault intersects self-reported occupation with FEC two-year cycle. For DEVELOPER in 2010, the dollar cell is $1,295,633. The line cell is 961 contributions. The person cell is 569 donors. Those three figures describe one filter applied to FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. They are not three independent studies, and they are not a fourth total created by adding the occupation hub to the cycle hub.

The occupation hub Developer donations still holds $33,583,908 across the extract. The cycle hub 2010 election cycle covers every occupation in 2010, not only Developer. This ties page exists because a reader asked for both filters at once. All FEC ties is the directory of those intersections. All occupations remains the inventory of other strings that were not recoded into DEVELOPER.

The Developer occupation total on this extract

The occupation-wide total for DEVELOPER on this extract is $33,583,908 ($33.6 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2010. $1,295,633 is the 2010 slice (3.9%). DEVELOPER is an ambiguous filer string. Some people mean software; some mean real estate. LobbyVault does not recode it either way. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, and WEB DEVELOPER stay on their own keys.

Do not treat $33,583,908 as a labor-market size. It is disclosed itemized receipts whose occupation field matched DEVELOPER. People who never itemized, who used another spelling, or who left occupation blank are outside $33,583,908. The 2010 cell is a further filter on that already-narrow set. Open Developer donations for names and committees on the occupation hub rather than inventing a workforce count from 569.

What the 2010 FEC cycle covers on this join

The 2010 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2010 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Developer accounts for $1,295,633 on 961 contributions from 569 donors.

The cycle hub 2010 election cycle includes every occupation string, including labels that are not DEVELOPER. This page is the Developer subset of that hub. Adding this cell to other occupation–2010 cells would rebuild a cycle total only if every occupation key were included — which this packet does not list. Do not treat $1,295,633 as a share of all 2010 receipts; that denominator is not in the facts.

Contribution rows versus unique Developer donors in 2010

961 contributions and 569 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 961 divided by 569 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,295,633 divided by 569 is about $2,277 per donor; $1,295,633 divided by 961 is about $1,348 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

Name matching can split one person into two donor keys or merge two people into one. 569 is therefore an index count, not a guaranteed civil roster of Developer workers. Do not convert 569 into an employment statistic. Do not convert $2,277 into a statement about what a typical Developer contributed in 2010.

What this Developer–2010 page is not

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Developer as a profession acted in concert in 2010.

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Typos, abbreviations, and bilingual titles all create extra keys. DEVELOPER is an ambiguous filer string. Some people mean software; some mean real estate. LobbyVault does not recode it either way. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, and WEB DEVELOPER stay on their own keys. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. For the live occupation table use Developer donations; for the live cycle table use 2010 election cycle; for peer strings use all occupations; for other joins use all FEC ties.

Questions

How much did Developer filers give in the 2010 FEC cycle?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation DEVELOPER total $1,295,633 in the 2010 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 961 contributions and 569 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $33,583,908, so 2010 is 3.9% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

Is $1,295,633 the full Developer occupation total?

No. $1,295,633 is the 2010 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $33,583,908 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Developer donations and not a restatement of 2010 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

How many Developer donors are in the 2010 cell?

The join lists 569 unique donors and 961 contribution lines for DEVELOPER in 2010. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $2,277 per donor and $1,348 per line are means from $1,295,633, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Does Developer include nearby job titles in 2010?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string DEVELOPER as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Developer donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.