Programmer donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Programmer × 2008

PROGRAMMER plus cycle 2008 equals $868,464. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Software engineer, developer, software developer, and computer programmer are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a BLS computer-occupations census, a GitHub user count, or a tech-payroll file. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Programmer donations at /occupations/programmer/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $868,464 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Programmer in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $868,464. Languages, employers, and contractor versus employee status is unpublished for Programmer in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

PROGRAMMER, not software engineer

$12.7 million ($12,670,737) belongs to the exact string PROGRAMMER across harvested cycles. It is not a BLS computer-occupations census, a GitHub user count, or a tech-payroll file. People who wrote nearby wording — software engineer, developer, software developer, and computer programmer — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 6.9% of that title bucket. Share of PROGRAMMER is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $868,464. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $12,670,737. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Programmer donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $868,464.

1,330 programmer receipts in a presidential year

518 donors and 1,330 receipts — about 2.6 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $653; mean per donor about $1,677. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 518 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,330 is a line count, not 518 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. Languages, employers, and contractor versus employee status is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by PROGRAMMER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $868,464.

Title versus tech-industry PACs

Cite $868,464 as Programmer in 2008. Cite $12,670,737 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add tech-industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $868,464 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 6.9%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode PROGRAMMER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite programmer money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation PROGRAMMER, election cycle 2008, $868,464 in itemized individual contributions, 1,330 receipts, and 518 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $653 per line and $1,677 per donor in the cell. If the live Programmer donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,330 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Programmer donations rolls every cycle into one PROGRAMMER running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Programmer × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,330 receipts and $868,464. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did programmer filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Programmer itemized $868,464 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 1,330 receipts and 518 donors. That is 6.9% of $12,670,737 under PROGRAMMER. Software engineer, developer, software developer, and computer programmer are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include technology-company PACs?

No. $868,464 is individual contributions tagged Programmer in 2008. Tech-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $868,464 would blend FEC tables. See Programmer donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Programmer in 2008 is $868,464 on 1,330 receipts from 518 donors.

Are programmer labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PROGRAMMER. Software engineer, developer, software developer, and computer programmer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a BLS computer-occupations census, a GitHub user count, or a tech-payroll file. Cite $868,464 for this title in 2008 on 1,330 receipts from 518 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Programmer donations ($12.7 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $868,464 from 1,330 receipts and 518 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Programmer in 2008.