How much did Engineer-labeled donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $967,342 in itemized individual contributions for the Engineer grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 993 contributions and 249 donors. The label is a self-reported title bucket, not a PE census.

Are these 249 donors at one tech company?

No. Engineer is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC text. The 249 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm. Named employers such as Microsoft have their own keys.

What share of the Engineer total is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $24,337,583. $967,342 divided by that figure is about 4.0%. Other cycles make up the remainder.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Engineer 2014 for the table, Engineer for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.

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Engineer occupation filings and the 2014 FEC cycle

Filers who wrote Engineer in the employer or occupation rollup reported $967,342 in itemized individual contributions during the 2014 election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 993 contributions from 249 donors. Engineer here is a text grouping, not a census of licensed PEs and not a society PAC. This page joins that occupation-style key to 2014 so it is not confused with named-company keys such as Innovative Interfaces Inc or with the MD 2012 clinical abbreviation cell. Two hundred forty-nine engineer-title donors are not Microsoft’s 272-donor 2014 cell; title buckets and company keys stay uncombined.

Key figures

Engineer × 2014 is $967,342 in itemized individual contributions.
The cell includes 993 contributions from 249 donors.
2014 is about 4.0% of the grouping’s $24,337,583 all-cycle total.
The key is a title string, not a company.
FEC gifts and federal research awards remain separate datasets.

Why Engineer and 2014 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like strings that appear often enough to form buckets. Engineer is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2014 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $967,342 — a cell, not a verdict on engineers as a class. Named-company keys are stored separately even when a filer might also be an engineer there.

The same grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $24,337,583. The 2014 slice is about 4.0% of that stack. A midterm cell that is one-twenty-fifth of a large title bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2014 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Engineer filter.

What the Engineer string captures

Donors type titles. Some write engineer, some write software engineer, some write a company name. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy. People who listed a firm name land in employer groupings, not here. Mixing this page with Microsoft 2014 or Innovative Interfaces Inc 2014 would mix a title bucket with named-company keys.

249 donors are contributor identities whose matched text fell in this grouping, not a sample of one metro’s technical workforce. A filer who listed both engineer and a company name may still land in only one rollup on this site.

Treat $24,337,583 as the denominator for the 4.0% share. Neighboring occupation strings such as Executive keep their own facts. This page does not rank them.

993 contributions from 249 donors

Dividing $967,342 by 993 contributions yields about $974 per itemized gift. Dividing by 249 donors yields about $3,885 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.0. Those figures describe repeated giving in a mid-size occupation cell without identifying a median or a party split. Mean gift size is close to Microsoft 2014’s $937, which is a different key and must not be used as a benchmark on this page.

Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. 993 and 249 belong together. The overlay for Engineer 2014 is the row view. Averages hide tails; the packet does not publish a distribution. About 4.0 lines per donor among 249 engineer-title identities at a $974 mean gift is a title-bucket pattern, not Microsoft’s company-key 2014 cell.

2014 without an engineering ranking

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Engineer is one row in that matrix. Nothing in $967,342 ranks engineers against physicians or attorneys. Comparisons require other joins, each with their own facts.

Open the 2014 election cycle to drop the occupation filter and Engineer to drop the year. All FEC ties lists sibling relationship pages. None of them inherit the 249-donor count from this cell.

Caveats for an engineering-title bucket

Occupation fields are messy. Combined strings and company names fragment the same real-world jobs across keys. Itemization thresholds hide smaller gifts. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures sit outside $967,342.

Do not read the join as evidence that engineers funded the 2014 midterm. The records show a text match and a date window. Federal research or infrastructure awards in USAspending are a different universe; FEC itemized gifts do not fund those awards by sharing a year.

Keeping 249 donors inside this title cell

Start with $967,342, then the overlay, then Engineer or the 2014 election cycle if a dimension needs to drop. Keep named-company software keys on their own pages.

The 4.0% share versus $24,337,583, the 249-donor count, and the $974 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a company-name page and the arithmetic stops being a fact from this packet. Nine hundred ninety-three contributions at about $974 per gift and a 4.0 percent share of $24,337,583 describe Engineer in 2014. Software engineer as a longer string, if stored separately, is another page. Research and infrastructure awards in USAspending remain a different universe.

Questions

How much did Engineer-labeled donors give in 2014?: FEC.gov aggregates show $967,342 in itemized individual contributions for the Engineer grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 993 contributions and 249 donors. The label is a self-reported title bucket, not a PE census.
Are these 249 donors at one tech company?: No. Engineer is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC text. The 249 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm. Named employers such as Microsoft have their own keys.
What share of the Engineer total is 2014?: The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $24,337,583. $967,342 divided by that figure is about 4.0%. Other cycles make up the remainder.
Where is the overlay for this join?: Open Engineer 2014 for the table, Engineer for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.