Programmer political contributions from California

Programmer and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PROGRAMMER and donor state CA produce $3,233,606, 15,352 contributions, and 458 donors. The occupation hub is $12,670,737, 72,729 contributions, and 2,058 donors. California’s dollar share is about 25.5%; contribution share about 21.1% (15,352 of 72,729); donor share about 22.3% (458 of 2,058). Four hundred fifty-eight California donors are about 22.3% of 2,058 national donors; 15,352 contributions are about 21.1% of 72,729 national rows; dollars are about 25.5% of $12,670,737.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SOFTWARE, and COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Programmer total. Do not stack PROGRAMMER with SOFTWARE ENGINEER or SOFTWARE into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

458 California donors produced 15,352 contributions, about 33.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.3 rows per donor nationally (72,729 contributions from 2,058 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $211, against about $174 nationwide. California’s about 25.5% dollar share and about 22.3% donor share make this a large cell of the national PROGRAMMER bucket, distinct from California Software.

PROGRAMMER as a craft-title string

PROGRAMMER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a language, a stack, or a California employer. One word on the form is the filter. The $12,670,737 national total is PROGRAMMER only. 2,058 donors produced 72,729 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 72,729 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Seventy-two thousand seven hundred twenty-nine national contributions make PROGRAMMER a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California on the state side

458 California donors produced 15,352 contributions totaling $3,233,606. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California software shop, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,233,606.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only PROGRAMMER. The Programmer occupation hub without California still holds about 74.5% of the $12,670,737. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. PROGRAMMER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Programmer plus California

This page does not merge SOFTWARE dollars, count software jobs, or claim that Programmer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. PROGRAMMER is not SOFTWARE even when filers meant a coding job. California Software is a different occupation-state pair in this slice.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PROGRAMMER is not a NAICS programming extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Languages and employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Programmer filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national PROGRAMMER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PROGRAMMER in every other state combined. That remainder ($9,437,131) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 458 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 15,352 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,233,606 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the PROGRAMMER national total, drops a key. Four hundred fifty-eight donors producing 15,352 contributions totaling $3,233,606 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Programmer donations holds the $12,670,737 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Software in California is a different occupation-state tie; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Programmer donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PROGRAMMER and state California total $3,233,606, from 15,352 contributions and 458 donors. Nationwide, PROGRAMMER-coded receipts are $12,670,737 from 72,729 contributions and 2,058 donors. California is about 25.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Programmer the same as Software?

No. This hub is the string PROGRAMMER. SOFTWARE is a different occupation bucket. State is CA. Four hundred fifty-eight donors produced 15,352 gifts totaling $3,233,606. The 458 California donors used occupation PROGRAMMER and state CA. Filers who wrote SOFTWARE ENGINEER or SOFTWARE may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Programmer FEC money is from California?

About 25.5% of the $12,670,737 occupation total is in this California join ($3,233,606). California also accounts for about 21.1% of contributions (15,352 of 72,729) and about 22.3% of donors (458 of 2,058). About 25.5% of dollars from 458 of 2,058 donors and 15,352 of 72,729 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,233,606 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.