Software Engineer political contributions from Virginia

The Software Engineer–Virginia intersection

Occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER and donor state VA produce $1,100,952, 7,737 contributions, and 276 donors. The occupation hub is $64,582,668, 353,424 contributions, and 10,853 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 1.7%; contribution share about 2.2% (7,737 of 353,424); donor share about 2.5% (276 of 10,853). Two hundred seventy-six Virginia donors are 2.5% of 10,853 national SOFTWARE ENGINEER donors. Contributions (7,737 of 353,424) are about 2.2%; dollars about 1.7%.

ENGINEER, PROGRAMMER, and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack SOFTWARE ENGINEER with ENGINEER or PROGRAMMER into a single Virginia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

276 Virginia donors produced 7,737 contributions, about 28.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 32.6 rows per donor nationally (353,424 contributions from 10,853 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Virginia cell is about $142, against about $183 nationwide. Virginia’s share of $64,582,668 is an address-coded slice of a large tech label, including whatever mix of Northern Virginia contractors the two-letter code cannot show. Mean gift here is about $142, below the national Software Engineer mean of about $183.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER as a two-word occupation string

SOFTWARE ENGINEER is a filer-entered string. The file does not confirm a federal contract, a clearance, or a tech-firm payroll. The two words plus VA are the filter. The $64,582,668 national total is SOFTWARE ENGINEER only. 10,853 donors produced 353,424 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 353,424 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Virginia (VA). This page locates the Virginia overlap. It does not classify the 276 Virginia donors as federal contractors, product engineers, or consultants.

Virginia as donor state

276 Virginia donors produced 7,737 contributions totaling $1,100,952. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia license, and not a limit to Virginia candidates. VA is the address on the itemized record. Proximity to Washington, D.C. is a geography fact, not an FEC field for employer or clearance. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. This join is only SOFTWARE ENGINEER. The Software Engineer occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 98.3% of the $64,582,668. Virginia’s state hub includes every occupation coded to VA. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Software Engineer plus Virginia

This page does not treat these donors as federal contractors, merge Engineer dollars, or claim that Software Engineer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SOFTWARE ENGINEER plus VA is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not a contracting map.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SOFTWARE ENGINEER is not a contractor or clearance roster. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Software Engineer filter

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national SOFTWARE ENGINEER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SOFTWARE ENGINEER in every other state combined. That remainder ($63,481,716) 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 276 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 7,737 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,100,952 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the SOFTWARE ENGINEER national total, drops a key. Two hundred seventy-six donors producing 7,737 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,100,952 headline.

Related tables

Software Engineer donations holds the $64,582,668 national occupation total. Virginia 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. ENGINEER as a one-word occupation is a different hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Software Engineer donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER and state Virginia total $1,100,952, from 7,737 contributions and 276 donors. Nationwide, SOFTWARE ENGINEER-coded receipts are $64,582,668 from 353,424 contributions and 10,853 donors. Virginia is about 1.7% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are Virginia Software Engineer donors federal contractors?

The file does not say. Occupation is SOFTWARE ENGINEER and state is VA. Two hundred seventy-six donors are not a contractor headcount. The 276 Virginia donors used occupation SOFTWARE ENGINEER and state VA. Filers who wrote ENGINEER or SOFTWARE DEVELOPER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Software Engineer FEC money is from Virginia?

About 1.7% of the $64,582,668 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($1,100,952). Virginia also accounts for about 2.2% of contributions (7,737 of 353,424) and about 2.5% of donors (276 of 10,853). About 1.7% of dollars from 276 of 10,853 donors and 7,737 of 353,424 contributions.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,100,952 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to VA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.