What banking-occupation donors give in federal races

Field word with a $407 mean gift

$9,515,899, 23,376 itemizations, and 1,544 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $407. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,163. Repeat giving is about 15 itemizations per donor record.

23,376 lines from 1,544 records is a mid-volume field-label stack. The $407 per-line mean sits near other industry-as-occupation words, not with concentrated partner titles.

The packet has no retail-versus-investment split, no title rank, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average.

BANKING is not BANKER

The FEC record does not verify that the donor works at a bank. Operations staff, retirees, and people describing an industry can all type BANKING. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $9,515,899, 23,376 contributions, and 1,544 donors. BANKER and INVESTMENT BANKER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping finance titles

1,544 donor records used BANKING on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed BANKING on some gifts and BANKER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the field word.

Industry pages already name finance employers

Industry pages group employers. BANKING as occupation is the donor’s field text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $9,515,899 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the BANKING occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the word next to BANKER and other finance titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals BANKING, dollars equal $9,515,899, contributions equal 23,376, donors equal 1,544, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the mid-range mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $9,515,899, 23,376 contributions, and 1,544 donors. The BANKER key stays on its own page unless the extract merged it into BANKING.

Reading BANKING next to BANKER

BANKING in this extract is $9,515,899 on 23,376 itemizations from 1,544 donor records, or $9.5 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules. People who type banker, investment banker, or finance may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact BANKING key is in $9,515,899.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $407 per contribution and about $6,163 per donor record, with roughly 15 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining BANKING with BANKER without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,544 donor records on 23,376 lines is a mid-volume field-label pool, not a bank-employee census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $9,515,899. A person who listed BANKING on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals BANKING, dollars equal $9,515,899, contributions equal 23,376, donors equal 1,544. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live BANKING occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($9.5 million) are the same headline amount as $9,515,899, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 23,376 contributions and 1,544 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the industry-as-occupation word separately from BANKER. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a bank-employee roster. A citation that stays inside the packet names BANKING, $9,515,899, 23,376, and 1,544 together.

Questions

How much have banking-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The BANKING occupation string is attached to $9,515,899 across 23,376 contributions and 1,544 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of bank employees. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does BANKING include banker filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized BANKER to this word. Otherwise BANKER is a separate key. This page covers BANKING: $9,515,899, 23,376 contributions, and 1,544 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average banking-occupation contribution?

Dividing $9,515,899 by 23,376 itemizations yields about $407 per contribution. Dividing by 1,544 donors yields about $6,163 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 15 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing banking prove the donor works at a bank?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify employer. Quote 23,376 contributions and 1,544 donor records with the $9,515,899 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.