Engineer political money — 2010 cycle

Engineer as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Engineer and 2010 — sum to $924,482. 1,065 itemized contributions and 305 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 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Engineer is a self-reported title, not a PE license file and not an NSPE membership roll. 305 donors and 1,065 lines in 2010 matched that word. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, CIVIL ENGINEER, PE, ENGINEERING, and named engineering firms sit in other keys. This page is the stored string ENGINEER.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Engineer 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Engineer 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $924,482, 1,065 contributions, 305 donors, and 3.8% of $24,337,583.

3.8% of the Engineer roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $24,337,583. The 2010 slice of $924,482 is about 3.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.2% ($23,413,101). Treating 2010 as the Engineer FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $24,337,583 as the denominator for the 3.8% 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 2010 from being folded silently into $24,337,583.

A 3.8% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Engineer hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Engineer to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

1,065 contributions from 305 donors

Dividing $924,482 by 1,065 contributions yields about $868 per itemized gift. Dividing by 305 donors yields about $3,031 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

305 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 2010 holds the rows.

1,065 is a receipt count, not a unique-person census beyond the 305 donor figure already in the packet. A person who gave twice is two lines inside the 1,065. Unitemized gifts never appear in $924,482.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 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 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Engineer to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $924,482 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 1,065 contributions, the 305 unique donors, and the 3.8% share of $24,337,583.

2010 is a midterm federal cycle on FEC.gov. That calendar label does not explain $924,482. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix beyond the stored string ENGINEER. Cite the two packet dollars — $924,482 for the 2010 slice and $24,337,583 for the Engineer book — and stop before assigning motive.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $924,482. 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 engineers PAC and not an engineering NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 305 donors, and 1,065 contributions. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, CIVIL ENGINEER, PE, ENGINEERING, and named engineering firms sit in other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not read $924,482 as proof that Engineer “drove” the 2010 cycle or that 2010 “drove” the Engineer book. The join is two fields. If the live hubs disagree with $924,482 or 305 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Citing Engineer and 2010 together

Start with $924,482, then Engineer 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Engineer, 2010, $924,482, 1,065 contributions, 305 donors, 3.8% 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 3.8% share, the 305-donor count, and the $868 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 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $924,482 in itemized individual contributions for the Engineer grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 1,065 contributions and 305 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $24,337,583 all-cycle figure.

What share of Engineer FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $24,337,583. The 2010 cell of $924,482 is about 3.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.2% ($23,413,101) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Engineer hub holds other cycles; the 2010 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 2010 only, totaling $924,482 from 305 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Engineer 2010 join?

Open Engineer 2010 for the cycle overlay, Engineer for the grouping hub, and the 2010 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.