Engineer political money — 2008 cycle

Engineer as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Engineer and 2008 — sum to $1,362,295. 1,384 itemized contributions and 425 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Engineer hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Engineer is a self-reported title, not a PE-license roster. Four hundred twenty-five donors and 1,384 lines in 2008 matched that word. Software, civil, and mechanical titles that added a modifier sit in other keys. Named firms typed as employer sit on firm pages. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, CIVIL ENGINEER, PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, and named engineering firms are other keys. This page is the one-word Engineer string.

5.6% of the Engineer roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $24,337,583 ($24.3 million). The 2008 slice of $1,362,295 is about 5.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.4% ($22,975,288). Treating 2008 as the Engineer FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $24,337,583 as the denominator for the 5.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $24,337,583.

1,384 contributions from 425 donors

Dividing $1,362,295 by 1,384 contributions yields about $984 per itemized gift. Dividing by 425 donors yields about $3,205 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

425 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Engineer 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Engineer is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Engineer to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $1,362,295.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $1,362,295 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 1,384 contributions, the 425 unique donors, and the 5.6% share of $24,337,583.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,362,295. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not an engineering NAICS total and not an engineering-society PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 425 donors, and 1,384 contributions. The FEC does not verify PE stamps or current employment. Household members who reuse an engineering workplace can appear among the 425 identities. Keep ENGINEER as the exact one-word match. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Engineer and 2008 together

Start with $1,362,295, then Engineer 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Engineer, 2008, $1,362,295, 1,384 contributions, 425 donors, 5.6% of $24,337,583, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string ENGINEER.

The 5.6% share, the 425-donor count, and the $984 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Engineer donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,362,295 in itemized individual contributions for the Engineer grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,384 contributions and 425 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $24,337,583 all-cycle figure.

What share of Engineer FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $24,337,583. The 2008 cell of $1,362,295 is about 5.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.4% ($22,975,288) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Engineer hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Engineer donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Engineer. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,362,295 from 425 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Engineer 2008 join?

Open Engineer 2008 for the cycle overlay, Engineer for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.