Software Engineer occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

The Software Engineer × 2008 intersection

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string SOFTWARE ENGINEER. The other is the 2008 federal election cycle. The match is $1,944,562, built from 3,427 contributions and 1,426 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. 2008 is a presidential-year FEC window. 3,427 contributions from 1,426 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is the two-word occupation. ENGINEER without the modifier and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER are other keys. The 2008 join does not map donors to employers or to a programming language. Company PACs are committee totals. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $1,944,562. FEC individual receipts are not USAspending.gov awards; this page does not treat campaign gifts as federal spending.

The Software Engineer occupation hub behind $64,582,668

Software Engineer donations is the occupation hub: $64,582,668 ($64.6 million) across cycles from filers who typed SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Sibling strings (ENGINEER, PROGRAMMER, and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER) are not merged here. The occupation total is not a tech-company headcount, an IEEE roll, or a technology PAC.

2008’s $1,944,562 sits inside $64,582,668. Because 3.0% is the cycle’s share of occupation dollars, the leftover outside 2008 is $62,638,106 (97.0%). Open the occupation hub for the all-cycle table. This tie keeps 2008 as the second dimension.

2008 as the cycle side of the Software Engineer join

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Software Engineer. $1,944,562 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

3,427 contributions from 1,426 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. About 2.4 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $567; mean per donor about $1,364. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $1,944,562.

Caveats on SOFTWARE ENGINEER in 2008

Matching Software Engineer with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Software Engineer donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a tech-company headcount, an IEEE roll, or a technology PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is the two-word occupation. ENGINEER without the modifier and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER are other keys. The 2008 join does not map donors to employers or to a programming language. Company PACs are committee totals. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $1,944,562 funded USAspending obligations.

Linked Software Engineer and 2008 tables

Software Engineer donations holds the $64,582,668 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Software Engineer. All occupations places SOFTWARE ENGINEER beside other titles without merging sibling strings (ENGINEER, PROGRAMMER, and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $1,944,562 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Software Engineer dollars ($64,582,668). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $1,944,562, 3,427 contributions, 1,426 donors, 3.0% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

How $1,944,562 sits under $64,582,668

Subtract $1,944,562 from $64,582,668 and the residual is $62,638,106 in other even-year cycles for the same occupation string, not a different title. 3.0% in 2008 leaves 97.0% of Software Engineer dollars outside this page.

Do not treat the residual as a named year. This packet only publishes 2008 as the cycle dimension. The occupation hub is the place for the full $64,582,668 series.

Questions

How much did Software Engineer-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Software Engineer grouping’s 2008 cell is $1,944,562 in itemized individual contributions, from 3,427 contributions and 1,426 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $64,582,668 all-cycle occupation total.

Is this technology-company PAC spending?

No. The join is individual itemized receipts tagged SOFTWARE ENGINEER, not a technology company’s separate segregated fund. The 2008 cycle filter on Software Engineer is $1,944,562, 3,427 contributions, and 1,426 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $64,582,668. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Software Engineer FEC money fell in 2008?

About 3.0%. $1,944,562 divided by $64,582,668 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 97.0% ($62,638,106) on the occupation hub. See the Software Engineer occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Software Engineer 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $1,944,562 is itemized receipts tagged SOFTWARE ENGINEER in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.