BANKER occupation giving in FEC itemizations

A mid-size professional key

145,114 itemizations against $58,732,088 implies about $405 per contribution. 10,578 donor records imply about $5,552 per donor and about 14 contributions per donor record. The pool is wider than FINANCE in this harvest and the mean line is smaller than FINANCE’s roughly $716.

Investment banker, commercial banker, and private banker may remain separate strings if that is how they were filed. This page is the BANKER match: $58,732,088, 145,114 contributions, 10,578 donors.

Credit-union staff, mortgage officers, and retired bankers who typed BANKER share the key. The occupation box does not encode charter type.

Occupation versus banking industry

Industry pages group employer categories. A banker at a regional bank and a banker at a diversified financial firm can share this occupation string and split across industries. Adding occupation and industry dollars double-counts.

FINANCE, INVESTOR, and MANAGING DIRECTOR are neighboring occupation keys. A combined “Wall Street” headline would mix strings the FEC file kept apart.

Self-reporting

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. There is no FDIC or FINRA match. 10,578 is a contributor-record count, not U.S. banking employment.

A donor who wrote BANKER on some gifts and EXECUTIVE on others appears in both occupation totals for those lines. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $58.7 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Using the hub

Cite $58,732,088, 145,114 contributions, and 10,578 donors. Open the BANKER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to compare FINANCE and INVESTOR without merging them.

Do not assign party from the job word. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $58.7 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Limits

Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. These three numbers do not measure American Bankers Association PAC activity or lobbying registrations.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep BANKER on its own line with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring strings. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut and should not be added to this occupation total. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $58.7 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $58.7 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions. Compact millions for this occupation string appear in the lede as a rounded form of the same headline dollar total.

BANKER next to FINANCE, not inside it

BANKER is $58.7 million on 145,114 itemizations from 10,578 donor records. Mean amounts are about $405 per itemization and about $5,552 per donor record, with about 14 itemizations per donor. FINANCE is a smaller donor pool with a higher mean line and is excluded. INVESTOR and MANAGING DIRECTOR are also separate. Investment banker is included only if it normalized to BANKER.

Charter type is not in the box. Credit-union staff and commercial bankers can share the word. Bank-PAC spending is a committee-side category, not this occupation total. 10,578 is not U.S. banking employment. Industry pages will not equal $58,732,088. Keep the three facts together as an occupation-column filter on itemized receipts. A BANKER filter answers “who wrote banker,” not “who works at a bank.” Ten thousand five hundred seventy-eight donor records and 145,114 itemizations built $58.7 million. Investment-bank titles that did not normalize to BANKER are elsewhere. Committee-side bank PACs are elsewhere. Use the occupations index to keep FINANCE and INVESTOR in view without adding their dollars to this page.

Questions

How much have BANKER donors given in FEC records?

Occupation BANKER is attached to $58,732,088 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 145,114 contributions and 10,578 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a bank-industry rollup. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Is BANKER the same as FINANCE?

No. They are separate occupation strings. This page covers BANKER only: $58,732,088, 145,114 contributions, and 10,578 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Does this include investment bankers?

Only if they typed BANKER. Donors who wrote investment banker or managing director are in other keys unless those texts normalized to BANKER. The matching contribution count is 145,114 and the matching donor-record count is 10,578. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

What is the average BANKER contribution?

$58,732,088 divided by 145,114 itemizations is about $405 per contribution. Divided by 10,578 donors, the mean is about $5,552 per donor record. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.