Software political contributions from California

How occupation Software meets donor state California

Occupation SOFTWARE and donor state CA produce $2,997,330, 6,988 contributions, and 233 donors. The occupation hub is $7,732,451, 22,932 contributions, and 845 donors. California’s dollar share is about 38.8%; contribution share about 30.5% (6,988 of 22,932); donor share about 27.6% (233 of 845). Two hundred thirty-three California donors are about 27.6% of 845 national donors; 6,988 contributions are about 30.5% of 22,932 national rows; dollars are about 38.8% of $7,732,451.

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

233 California donors produced 6,988 contributions, about 30.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 27.1 rows per donor nationally (22,932 contributions from 845 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $429, against about $337 nationwide. California’s about 38.8% dollar share from 233 people is the dominant state cell of the national SOFTWARE bucket, unlike Idaho’s $113,861 cell.

SOFTWARE without an Idaho overlay

SOFTWARE is a filer-entered string. The national occupation hub is the same $7,732,451 book. This page filters donor state CA. Two hundred thirty-three unique donors is not a tech-payroll extract. The $7,732,451 national total is SOFTWARE only. 845 donors produced 22,932 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 22,932 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Eight hundred forty-five national donors make SOFTWARE a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as donor state

233 California donors produced 6,988 contributions totaling $2,997,330. 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 $2,997,330.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only SOFTWARE. The Software occupation hub without California still holds about 61.2% of the $7,732,451. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. SOFTWARE is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not add the Idaho Software cell into this total, merge PROGRAMMER dollars, or claim that Software-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. The Idaho Software join is a different pair with different state totals. Do not stack the two cells. Programmer in California uses a different occupation string.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one California Software filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national SOFTWARE occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SOFTWARE in every other state combined. That remainder ($4,735,121) 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 233 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 6,988 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,997,330 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 SOFTWARE national total, drops a key. Two hundred thirty-three donors producing 6,988 contributions totaling $2,997,330 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Software donations holds the $7,732,451 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. Idaho has a separate Software occupation-state tie; Programmer in California is a different occupation string.

Questions

How much have Software donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SOFTWARE and state California total $2,997,330, from 6,988 contributions and 233 donors. Nationwide, SOFTWARE-coded receipts are $7,732,451 from 22,932 contributions and 845 donors. California is about 38.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as Idaho Software or California Programmer?

No. This join is SOFTWARE and state CA. Idaho Software is a different state cell. PROGRAMMER is a different occupation string. Two hundred thirty-three California donors produced 6,988 gifts. The 233 California donors used occupation SOFTWARE and state CA. Filers who wrote SOFTWARE ENGINEER or PROGRAMMER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Software FEC money is from California?

About 38.8% of the $7,732,451 occupation total is in this California join ($2,997,330). California also accounts for about 30.5% of contributions (6,988 of 22,932) and about 27.6% of donors (233 of 845). About 38.8% of dollars from 233 of 845 donors and 6,988 of 22,932 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 $2,997,330 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.