Programmer occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Why $846,549 is a join

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string PROGRAMMER, cycle 2012. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $846,549, from 1,322 contributions and 459 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a software-title occupation string, not an IEEE census. Self-reported occupation fields are free text. Filers who wrote a longer title or a nearby word are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets.

$846,549 is smaller than $12,670,737 because other cycles exist, and it is not a share of national 2012 giving because this packet has no cycle-wide denominator. The join is the point.

Form text, not a license file

The Commission stores occupation as typed. PROGRAMMER survived grouping as Programmer. That is not a census of practitioners. 459 unique donors in 2012 matched this string.

See the Programmer occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings. This tie keeps both filters on. The 6.7% ratio is $846,549 divided by $12,670,737. Other even-year joins for PROGRAMMER are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $11,824,188. Citing 2012 as if it were the Programmer lifetime total would overstate this cell by $11,824,188.

How 459 donors produced 1,322 gifts

459 donors and 1,322 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 2.9 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$1,844 per donor and $640 per line are derived from $846,549. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. A mean of $640 per itemized line and $1,844 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 1,322 contributions remaining larger than 459 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

Where $11,824,188 still sits

After this 2012 cell of $846,549, $11,824,188 of the Programmer grouping remains in other even-year windows. That remainder is 93.3% of $12,670,737. The 2012 page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No national 2012 total is supplied, so no share of the election claim is possible. 6.7% is Programmer-internal. FEC cycle 2012 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $846,549 if they were itemized against PROGRAMMER. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

What the Commission does not verify

FEC occupation fields are typed by filers. PROGRAMMER is stored as written. The Commission does not verify licenses, current jobs, or professional status on this aggregate. Programmer here is a software-title occupation string, not an IEEE census.

PAC filings, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other tables. USAspending obligations are another database entirely. $846,549 does not fund federal awards. Programmer as a software-title occupation string, not an IEEE census can appear in licensing or contracting databases under similar names. Those tables are not this $846,549. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards.

Keeping Programmer 2012 distinct from the hubs

Programmer without 2012 is $12,670,737. 2012 without Programmer is the year hub. Programmer with 2012 is $846,549. Mixing those three sentences is the usual citation error this page exists to prevent.

Internal links: Programmer donations, 2012 election cycle, All occupations, All FEC ties. Anchors stay as supplied in the packet. Quote both keys: Programmer and 2012. Quote the dollars: $846,549. Quote the volume: 1,322 contributions, 459 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them. Restating the join without new numbers: Programmer in 2012 is $846,549 from 1,322 itemized individual contributions and 459 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $12,670,737 across cycles, so 2012 is about 6.7% and other windows hold $11,824,188 (93.3%). The grouping is a software-title occupation string, not an IEEE census, not a tech PAC, a GitHub workforce, or Software Developer stored as another key. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $640; mean per donor about $1,844; about 2.9 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $846,549.

Questions

How much did Programmer-labeled donors give in 2012?

Donors who listed Programmer reported $846,549 in the 2012 cycle on this aggregate — 1,322 contributions, 459 donors. The figure is not $12,670,737 and is not a named-recipient list. FEC.gov is the source for $846,549, 1,322 contributions, and 459 donors in the Programmer × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $12,670,737.

What share of Programmer FEC money fell in 2012?

6.7% of $12,670,737 is tagged 2012 ($846,549). That ratio uses only packet facts for PROGRAMMER. It is not a share of all 2012 FEC receipts. FEC.gov is the source for $846,549, 1,322 contributions, and 459 donors in the Programmer × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $12,670,737.

Is Programmer the same as Software Developer?

The label is not NAICS and not a census. It is a software-title occupation string, not an IEEE census. 2012 money for this exact string is $846,549. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, and ENGINEER remain other keys. FEC.gov is the source for $846,549, 1,322 contributions, and 459 donors in the Programmer × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $12,670,737.

Where is the overlay for Programmer in 2012?

Programmer donations is every cycle for the string. 2012 election cycle is every grouping that year. All occupations lists other titles. All FEC ties lists other intersections. Packet total $846,549. FEC.gov is the source for $846,549, 1,322 contributions, and 459 donors in the Programmer × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $12,670,737.