BANKER as FEC employer text: $13.7 million

A title word, not a call-report industry

FEC forms do not apply NAICS 5221. They store BANKER when that is what the filer typed. The $13,677,025 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches the title. It is not FDIC-insured deposits, not a bank holding-company PAC, and not every person who works at a bank and typed the bank’s legal name instead. Those 713 people and 36,102 lines are the BANKER grouping only.

People who typed INVESTMENT BANKER, BANK OF AMERICA, MORGAN STANLEY, or SELF-EMPLOYED sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into BANKER.

713 donors and 36,102 lines

713 unique donors produced 36,102 BANKER contribution lines totaling $13,677,025. That is on the order of 51 itemized receipts per person — high repeats relative to the unique-person count. Dollars per unique donor also run high compared with wide payroll names that spread similar totals across thousands of people. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. Named-bank PAC filings are other documents.

Bank-name and title siblings

BANK OF AMERICA, MORGAN STANLEY, GOLDMAN SACHS, MERRILL LYNCH, and INVESTMENT BANKER are separate keys. Combining them with BANKER would mix firm names and a generic title. This page stays at $13,677,025 for BANKER only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside BANKER when a later receipt used a different employer box. Those later receipts leave this row if the grouped employer text is no longer BANKER.

Donor table

The BANKER donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a CFPB action, a loan book, or a motive to that line. The FEC field is not an FINRA registration file.

Repeat names among 36,102 lines from 713 people are expected. Retail-branch staff who typed the bank’s legal name are not in these 713 unless a receipt also carried BANKER.

BANKER’s 36,102 lines from 713 donors totaling $13,677,025 are a title cluster, not BANK OF AMERICA, MORGAN STANLEY, GOLDMAN SACHS, MERRILL LYNCH, or INVESTMENT BANKER. Those firm and longer-title rows stay separate. Unitemized gifts and named-bank PAC filings stay out. Occupation pages show the companion field. The donor table does not certify FINRA registrations. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS 5221.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $13,677,025, 36,102 contributions, 713 donors, top employer BANKER. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare INVESTMENT BANKER and named banks on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this word. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Keep BANKER’s $13,677,025, 36,102 contributions, and 713 donors on this title word. BANK OF AMERICA and INVESTMENT BANKER stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show the companion field stored beside BANKER. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not FDIC employment and not NAICS 5221.

Title-word concentration versus named banks

BANKER’s $13,677,025 from 713 donors and 36,102 lines is a generic title, not NAICS commercial banking and not FDIC employment. Receipts per donor run near 51 — high repeats. Dollars per unique person run high compared with BANK OF AMERICA’s $11,582,158 spread across 2,033 donors. INVESTMENT BANKER ($10,972,200, 483 donors, 15,398 lines) is a longer title row. MORGAN STANLEY, GOLDMAN SACHS, and MERRILL LYNCH are firm-name rows.

People who typed a bank legal name instead of BANKER are in those firm rows. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and named-bank PAC documents are outside the $13,677,025. LobbyVault does not merge titles and legal names into one finance industry.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a FINRA registration. Occupation pages show the companion field. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $13,677,025, 36,102 contributions, 713 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS 5221.

Questions

How much have BANKER-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $13,677,025 to the BANKER employer string, from 36,102 contributions and 713 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS banking total and not a named bank’s PAC. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is BANKER the same as BANK OF AMERICA or INVESTMENT BANKER?

No. BANK OF AMERICA is a firm-name row. INVESTMENT BANKER is a longer title string. A receipt stamped BANKER is counted only in the $13,677,025 here. LobbyVault does not merge titles and bank legal names into one finance industry. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include every bank employee who donated?

No. Only receipts whose grouped employer text is BANKER are in the total. People who wrote a bank legal name or INVESTMENT BANKER are elsewhere. The 713 donor count is unique contributors in this string, not an FDIC employment census.

Why so many contributions from 713 donors?

The 36,102 lines include repeat gifts from the same 713 people — on the order of 51 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise that ratio. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-person census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.