Software occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Software × 2008

SOFTWARE plus cycle 2008 equals $233,303. 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, Software Developer, and Programmer are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a NAICS software-publishing rollup or a GitHub-user census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $7,499,148.

Parent hubs: Software donations and the 2008 election cycle. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $233,303 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Software in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $233,303. SOFTWARE is the typed one-word title. Longer software job strings are other keys. Employer is unpublished. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Donor names are absent and are not invented.

SOFTWARE as typed, not a job census

$7,732,451 belongs to the exact string SOFTWARE across harvested cycles. It is not a NAICS software-publishing rollup or a GitHub-user census. People who wrote nearby wording — Software Engineer, Software Developer, and Programmer — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 3.0% of that title bucket. Share of SOFTWARE is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $233,303. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $7,732,451. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Software 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.

309 Software receipts in a presidential year

141 donors and 309 receipts — about 2.2 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $755; mean per donor about $1,655. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 309 is a line count, not 141 one-time gifts. SOFTWARE is the typed one-word title. Longer software job strings are other keys. Employer is unpublished. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by SOFTWARE.

2008 as a presidential FEC window next to Software

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on individual receipts, not a single calendar year of January filings only. Inside that window, this occupation cell is $233,303 from 309 contributions and 141 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle book remains $7,732,451.

Independent expenditures are omitted from $233,303. Adjacent pages for the 2008 election cycle, Software donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, no percentage of national 2008 giving is claimed.

Self-reported Software versus committee filings

Cite $233,303 as Software in 2008. Cite $7,732,451 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add a professional association’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $233,303 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 3.0%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode SOFTWARE 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 read Software money in 2008

This join does not recode SOFTWARE into a NAICS software-publishing rollup or a GitHub-user census. SOFTWARE is the typed one-word title. Longer software job strings are other keys. Employer is unpublished. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried SOFTWARE are outside $233,303. Independent expenditures are outside $233,303. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much did Software filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Software itemized $233,303 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 309 receipts and 141 donors. That is 3.0% of $7,732,451 under SOFTWARE. Software Engineer, Software Developer, and Programmer are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this count a professional association’s PAC spending?

No. $233,303 is individual contributions tagged Software in 2008. Association committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $233,303 would blend FEC tables. See Software donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Software in 2008 is $233,303 on 309 receipts from 141 donors.

Are software labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses SOFTWARE. Software Engineer, Software Developer, and Programmer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a NAICS software-publishing rollup or a GitHub-user census. Cite $233,303 for this title in 2008 on 309 receipts from 141 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Software donations ($7,732,451 for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $233,303 from 309 receipts and 141 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Software in 2008.