Developer political contributions from Georgia

Why $657,704 is a join, not a hub restatement

LobbyVault keeps a Developer occupation page and a Georgia state page. Neither page is this join. The join is $657,704 from 1,249 contributions and 159 donors where occupation equals DEVELOPER and state equals GA. Against the occupation total of $33,583,908, that is 2.0%. Other states hold $32,926,204.

Do not treat 2.0% as Developer workers’ share of all Georgia receipts. The state hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 159 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in Georgia. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

Donor state GA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Georgia professional license, and not a limit to Georgia candidates. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

What $33,583,908 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, Developer indexes $33,583,908 of itemized individual receipts across harvested geography. $657,704 is already inside that total; adding $657,704 to $33,583,908 would double-count the Georgia slice. Developer occupation pages still mix Georgia with every other state.

DEVELOPER is an ambiguous short string. Real Estate Developer and Software Developer are other keys when those extra words appear. This join does not split software from property development. Keep the exact string on the citation so Developer is not merged with a sibling title. Real Estate Developer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, and Builder are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a state filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Developer in Georgia.

What the Georgia hub still mixes

Georgia campaign finance still holds teachers, retirees, attorneys, and every other occupation string that used GA. Adding those dollars to $657,704 would destroy the occupation filter. Subtracting $657,704 from an unpublished statewide total is also out of scope: this packet does not include a Georgia all-occupation dollar figure.

What this page does include on the state side: 1,249 contributions, 159 donors, $657,704. Those three numbers share the occupation filter DEVELOPER. Without that filter they are not this join.

Donor keys, lines, and means for Developer in Georgia

1,249 contributions totaling $657,704 is the operational definition of the Georgia side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 159. About 7.9 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $527 per line and $4,137 per donor should never be quoted as a typical Developer gift in Georgia. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 159 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $657,704 from 1,249 contributions and 159 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. Developer × Georgia is a database join.

Researchers should keep DEVELOPER as the stored occupation string and GA as the donor-state tag. DEVELOPER is an ambiguous short string. Real Estate Developer and Software Developer are other keys when those extra words appear. This join does not split software from property development. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Developer next to other Georgia occupation strings

Other occupation strings in Georgia live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $657,704. Real Estate Developer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, and Builder are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-state cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 159 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Developer, donor state Georgia (GA), $657,704 itemized, 1,249 contributions, 159 donors, 2.0% of $33,583,908. DEVELOPER is an ambiguous short string. Real Estate Developer and Software Developer are other keys when those extra words appear. This join does not split software from property development. Real Estate Developer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, and Builder stay on other occupation pages. The Georgia campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

What is the Georgia Developer contribution total?

$657,704 from 1,249 itemized contributions and 159 donor keys whose occupation grouped to DEVELOPER and whose donor state grouped to GA. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $33,583,908. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of Developer occupation receipts is Georgia?

2.0%. That is $657,704 divided by $33,583,908. The complement is $32,926,204 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 3.4%; donor share is 4.3%.

Does occupation DEVELOPER mean the donors were licensed in Georgia?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. DEVELOPER is an ambiguous short string. Real Estate Developer and Software Developer are other keys when those extra words appear. This join does not split software from property development. 159 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $657,704 on 1,249 lines.

Where are the live Developer and Georgia tables?

Developer donations carries the $33,583,908 occupation total. Georgia campaign finance places Developer beside other occupation strings in that state. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Developer × Georgia intersection only.