Software occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Software as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation SOFTWARE and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $519,183, 362 contributions, and 134 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Software engineer, software developer, programmer, and software executive are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a BLS software-employment census, a GitHub headcount, or a tech PAC. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Software donations at /occupations/software/ and the 2012 election cycle at /election-cycles/2012/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $519,183 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Software in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $519,183. Engineer versus founder versus vendor versus product roles is unpublished for Software in 2012. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Under one hundred forty donor keys carrying three hundred-plus receipts is a concentrated industry-word cell with a high mean.

SOFTWARE as an industry word, not engineer

$7.7 million ($7,732,451) belongs to the exact string SOFTWARE across harvested cycles. It is not a BLS software-employment census, a GitHub headcount, or a tech PAC. People who wrote nearby wording — software engineer, software developer, programmer, and software executive — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 6.7% of that title bucket ($519,183 of $7,732,451). Share of SOFTWARE is not share of all 2012 receipts. The remainder, $7,213,268, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $519,183. 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 2012 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 $519,183.

134 software donors and 362 receipts in 2012

134 donors and 362 receipts — about 2.7 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,434; mean per donor about $3,874. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Under one hundred forty donor keys carrying three hundred-plus receipts is a concentrated industry-word cell with a high mean. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 362 is a line count, not 134 one-time gifts. Engineer versus founder versus vendor versus product roles is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by SOFTWARE. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $519,183. Software Engineer and Programmer are other keys when those words appear. Do not fold them into this one-word SOFTWARE cell.

Industry label versus tech PACs

Cite $519,183 as Software in 2012. Cite $7,732,451 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add technology-industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $519,183 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 6.7%.

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. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2012 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Software money in 2012

A clean footnote names occupation SOFTWARE, election cycle 2012, $519,183 in itemized individual contributions, 362 receipts, and 134 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,434 per line and $3,874 per donor in the cell. If the live Software donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 362 as unique workers in the trade named by SOFTWARE.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Software donations rolls every cycle into one SOFTWARE running total. The 2012 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2012 total. Only the Software × 2012 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 362 receipts and $519,183. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2012 hub, and Software Engineer as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $7,213,268 outside 2012. Most of the $7,732,451 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Software Engineer and Programmer are other keys when those words appear. Do not fold them into this one-word SOFTWARE cell. Gifts per donor in 2012 average about 2.7. That ratio is 362 divided by 134, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Software filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Software itemized $519,183 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 362 receipts and 134 donors. That is 6.7% of $7,732,451 under SOFTWARE. Software engineer, software developer, programmer, and software executive are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include technology-industry PACs?

No. $519,183 is individual contributions tagged Software in 2012. Technology-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $519,183 would blend FEC tables. See Software donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Software in 2012 is $519,183 on 362 receipts from 134 donors.

Are Software labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses SOFTWARE. Software engineer, software developer, programmer, and software executive are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a BLS software-employment census, a GitHub headcount, or a tech PAC. Cite $519,183 for this title in 2012 on 362 receipts from 134 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Software donations ($7.7 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $519,183 from 362 receipts and 134 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Software in 2012.