Software Developer political contributions from Washington

Software Developer and Washington as overlapping columns

Occupation SOFTWARE DEVELOPER and donor state WA produce $2,042,195, 10,086 contributions, and 333 donors. The occupation hub is $16,793,605, 92,777 contributions, and 2,757 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 12%; contribution share about 11% (10,086 of 92,777); donor share about 12% (333 of 2,757).

The three shares line up. This Washington slice is a proportional cut of the labeled occupation, not a 13-donor outlier. Virginia’s Developer tie uses the shorter string DEVELOPER and a different national total. Those pages are not interchangeable, and WA is Washington state, not Washington, D.C.

Three hundred thirty-three Washington donors produced 10,086 contributions, about 30 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 34 rows per donor nationally (92,777 contributions from 2,757 donors). Washington holds about 12% of the $16,793,605 on dollars, contributions, and donors—a proportional slice of a contribution-dense technical label. WA is the state code, not the District of Columbia.

Software Developer as a specific technical label

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is more specific than DEVELOPER, ENGINEER, or PROGRAMMER. Filers who used those other words sit in other hubs. The $16,793,605 national total is this phrase only. Two thousand seven hundred fifty-seven donors produced 92,777 contributions—frequent repeat itemization inside the label.

This page does not identify employers in Seattle, Redmond, or elsewhere. It locates the WA overlap of the SOFTWARE DEVELOPER bucket.

Washington state as donor state

Three hundred thirty-three Washington donors produced 10,086 contributions totaling $2,042,195. Donor state WA is the address on the record, not proof of employment at a particular company, and not a limit to Washington candidates.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only SOFTWARE DEVELOPER.

Washington’s campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded WA. This join is only SOFTWARE DEVELOPER. The occupation hub without Washington still holds about 88% of the $16,793,605. DEVELOPER without the adjective is a different hub.

What the join is not

This page does not measure tech payroll, stock compensation, or whether Software Developer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. It does not rank Washington against California or other states as a tech hub; those comparisons are not in this packet’s facts.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is not an employer census of Seattle or Redmond. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Equity compensation is not an FEC occupation field. Donor state WA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Washington’s $2,042,195 is the SOFTWARE DEVELOPER-and-WA overlap only, not a statewide tech-payroll total and not a company headcount.

Why this Software Developer page is not a restatement of Washington

Subtract the Washington dollars on this page from the national Software Developer occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Software Developer in every other state combined. That remainder 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 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Washington dollars, or only the Software Developer national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related tables

Software Developer donations holds the $16,793,605 national occupation total. Washington 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.

Questions

How much have Software Developer donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Software Developer and state Washington total $2,042,195, from 10,086 contributions and 333 donors. Nationwide, Software Developer-coded receipts are $16,793,605 from 92,777 contributions and 2,757 donors. Washington is about 12% of those dollars.

Is this Washington state or Washington, D.C.?

Washington state. The donor-state code is WA. District of Columbia occupation ties in this slice use DC. This page’s 333 donors and $2,042,195 are SOFTWARE DEVELOPER-and-WA only.

Does this include people who wrote Developer or Engineer?

No. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is the occupation string for this join. DEVELOPER and ENGINEER are different labels if filers used them. Virginia has a Developer tie with different facts. This page does not merge those buckets.

Does this money go to Washington state candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,042,195 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.