How much have Software Engineer donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Software Engineer and state California total $29,126,945, from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors. Nationwide, Software Engineer-coded receipts are $64,582,668 from 353,424 contributions and 10,853 donors. California is about 45% of those dollars.

Does this count all California tech workers?

No. The occupation string is SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Other technical titles are other pages. The 3,774 California donors are people whose itemized records used this pair of labels, not an employment census of the state’s technology workforce. The California join is $29,126,945 from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors.

What share of Software Engineer FEC donors are in California?

About 35% of Software Engineer-coded donors (3,774 of 10,853) are in this California join, along with about 36% of contributions (128,352 of 353,424) and about 45% of dollars ($29,126,945 of $64,582,668). Donor state is the address on the filing.

Is this employer giving from California tech companies?

No. This join is individual contributions grouped by occupation and donor state, not by employer. Employer/industry pages are a different dimension. The $29,126,945 is not a corporate treasury total. The California join is $29,126,945 from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors.

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Software Engineer political contributions from California

California donors who listed their occupation as Software Engineer reported $29,126,945 in FEC itemized individual contributions. That join covers 128,352 contributions from 3,774 donors. Nationwide, Software Engineer-coded receipts total $64,582,668 from 353,424 contributions and 10,853 donors. California holds about 45% of those dollars; This page is an occupation-and-state join, not a headcount of Silicon Valley employees and not a statement that tech payrolls funded campaigns.

Key figures

California Software Engineer-coded donors account for $29,126,945, 128,352 contributions, and 3,774 donors.
The national Software Engineer occupation total is $64,582,668 from 10,853 donors and 353,424 contributions.
California holds about 45% of those dollars and about 35% of those donors.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER is a self-reported FEC occupation, not a verified tech-payroll extract.

The Software Engineer–California join

Occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER and state CA define the intersection: $29,126,945, 128,352 contributions, and 3,774 donors. The occupation nationwide is $64,582,668, 353,424 contributions, and 10,853 donors. California’s dollar share is about 45%. Contribution share is about 36% (128,352 of 353,424). Donor share is about 35% (3,774 of 10,853).

Nearly half the occupation’s dollars and about a third of its people sit in this CA filter. That is a geographic concentration in the labeled data, not proof that California software engineers give at a different rate than engineers elsewhere. Who itemizes, who types this exact title, and who reports a California address all shape the join.

Software Engineer–California is one of the larger people-counts in this slice: 3,774 donors against 10,853 nationally, 128,352 contributions against 353,424, $29,126,945 against $64,582,668. About 35% of the labeled people, about 36% of the labeled rows, and about 45% of the labeled dollars are CA-coded. The dollar share leads the people share, but both are large slices of the occupation rather than a handful of donors. The title is still one string. Programmer or engineer, if typed that way, are other pages. Employer groupings are a different FEC dimension. This join does not convert 3,774 donors into a count of California technology jobs, and it does not convert $29,126,945 into payroll or PAC spending. It converts two filters into one cell.

Software Engineer as a filer-entered title

SOFTWARE ENGINEER is one occupation string among many technical titles. Engineer, programmer, and developer, if entered that way, are other buckets. The national Software Engineer totals—10,853 donors, 353,424 contributions, $64,582,668—cover only this label.

Three hundred fifty-three thousand contributions from 10,853 donors shows frequent itemized giving. California’s 128,352 contributions from 3,774 donors is the CA-coded slice, not a map of Bay Area campuses or remote workers who happen to file from California.

California addresses in the occupation

The state side is $29,126,945 from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors. Donor state CA is the address on the contribution. Recipients are not required to be California committees. This page does not split the $29,126,945 by office sought.

California’s statewide FEC hub mixes occupations. This tie holds Software Engineer only. Founder and investor California joins are separate relationships with separate dollar figures.

Limits of a tech-title geography join

Matching a job title with a state does not show that the technology sector caused electoral outcomes, and it does not rank California against other states as more political. Correlation between SOFTWARE ENGINEER and CA is not causation.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Independent expenditures are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related occupation and state hubs

Software Engineer donations holds the $64,582,668 national total. California campaign finance holds all CA-coded itemized individual receipts. All occupations and all FEC ties index other occupation-state pairs, including this title in other states if those packets exist.

Three thousand seven hundred seventy-four California Software Engineer-coded donors are 35% of 10,853. Their 128,352 contributions are 36% of 353,424. Their $29,126,945 is 45% of $64,582,668. People and rows sit near one-third; dollars sit nearer to half.

A technical title and a California address, nothing more

SOFTWARE ENGINEER is one occupation string. The $29,126,945 does not include programmer, developer, or engineer if those words were typed instead. CA is the donor-state field, not a map of office locations or remote-work arrangements. Recipients of the 128,352 contributions can be committees in any state.

The occupation hub holds $64,582,668 from 10,853 donors. The California hub holds every occupation in the state. This tie is the AND: 3,774 donors, 128,352 contributions, $29,126,945. All occupations and all FEC ties keep other Software Engineer-state pages separate. Independent expenditures are excluded. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state are the source.

Questions

How much have Software Engineer donors in California given?: FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Software Engineer and state California total $29,126,945, from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors. Nationwide, Software Engineer-coded receipts are $64,582,668 from 353,424 contributions and 10,853 donors. California is about 45% of those dollars.
Does this count all California tech workers?: No. The occupation string is SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Other technical titles are other pages. The 3,774 California donors are people whose itemized records used this pair of labels, not an employment census of the state’s technology workforce. The California join is $29,126,945 from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors.
What share of Software Engineer FEC donors are in California?: About 35% of Software Engineer-coded donors (3,774 of 10,853) are in this California join, along with about 36% of contributions (128,352 of 353,424) and about 45% of dollars ($29,126,945 of $64,582,668). Donor state is the address on the filing.
Is this employer giving from California tech companies?: No. This join is individual contributions grouped by occupation and donor state, not by employer. Employer/industry pages are a different dimension. The $29,126,945 is not a corporate treasury total. The California join is $29,126,945 from 128,352 contributions and 3,774 donors.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state. Occupation labels are filer-entered.