Software Engineer political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

How Software Engineer and 2012 meet in FEC itemized receipts

Occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER and cycle 2012 produce $2,096,454, 3,481 contributions, and 1,390 donors. The occupation nationwide across cycles is $64,582,668. Dollar share for 2012 is 3.2%. 3,481 contributions from 1,390 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. Contribution count is not a headcount of people who hold the job.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is the occupation string. ENGINEER without the modifier and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER are other keys. The join does not map donors to employers or to a programming language. Company PACs are committee totals. The 2012 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a presidential-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2010 or 2014 dollars into the 2012 total. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $2,096,454.

What the SOFTWARE ENGINEER label covers

Software Engineer donations is the occupation hub: $64,582,668 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.

2012’s $2,096,454 sits inside $64,582,668. Because 3.2% is the cycle’s share of occupation dollars, the rest of Software Engineer itemization lives in other even-year cycles. Open the occupation hub for the all-cycle table. This tie keeps 2012 as the second dimension.

What the 2012 election cycle contributes to Software Engineer

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Software Engineer. $2,096,454 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

3,481 contributions from 1,390 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,096,454, 3,481, and 1,390 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,096,454. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,096,454. Three numbers define the Software Engineer × 2012 cell: dollars $2,096,454, contribution rows 3,481, unique donors 1,390. Share of occupation dollars is 3.2% of $64,582,668.

Limits of the Software Engineer 2012 occupation-cycle table

Matching Software Engineer with 2012 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 occupation string. ENGINEER without the modifier and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER are other keys. The join does not map donors to employers or to a programming language. Company PACs are committee totals. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text.

Linked Software Engineer and 2012 pages

Software Engineer donations holds the $64,582,668 occupation total. The 2012 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 $2,096,454 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Software Engineer dollars ($64,582,668). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,096,454, 3,481 contributions, 1,390 donors, 3.2% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Software Engineer donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Repeat gifts inside Software Engineer 2012

3,481 contributions from 1,390 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. Name matching can split or merge people across filings, so 1,390 is an index unique-person count for this pair, not a professional-association census.

3,481 is the row count. $2,096,454 is the dollar count. Neither is a license count. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Occupation labels remain filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Software Engineer donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER in the 2012 cycle total $2,096,454, from 3,481 contributions and 1,390 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Software Engineer-coded receipts are $64,582,668. 2012 is 3.2% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Software Engineer 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,096,454 or in the $64,582,668 occupation figure used here. The join is individual itemized receipts tagged SOFTWARE ENGINEER, not a technology company’s separate segregated fund. The 2012 join is $2,096,454 from 3,481 contributions and 1,390 donors.

Is this Big Tech PAC spending?

No. The join is individual itemized receipts tagged SOFTWARE ENGINEER, not a technology company’s separate segregated fund. The 2012 cycle filter on Software Engineer is $2,096,454, 3,481 contributions, and 1,390 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $64,582,668. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 3,481 Software Engineer contributions and 1,390 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 3,481 itemized contributions from 1,390 donors totaling $2,096,454. 3,481 contributions from 1,390 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.