FINANCE as an occupation word in FEC filings

A compact key with elevated means

88,566 itemizations against $63,396,379 implies about $716 per contribution. 7,237 donor records imply about $8,760 per donor and about 12 contributions per donor record. The donor pool is smaller than SALES or TEACHER and the mean line is larger than those high-frequency labels.

Financial advisor, CFO, and accountant are other strings if that is what the donor wrote. This page is FINANCE only: $63,396,379, 88,566 contributions, 7,237 donors.

People in corporate finance at non-financial companies can share this occupation word with people at banks. The box does not encode employer type.

Occupation versus industry

LobbyVault industry pages group employer categories. A FINANCE occupation total and a finance-industry total will overlap some rows and miss others. Adding them double-counts. Use one filter at a time.

BANKER, INVESTOR, INVESTMENTS, and MANAGING DIRECTOR are neighboring occupation keys with their own facts. A combined “finance people” headline would be a research construct, not a single FEC field.

Self-reporting

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. There is no Series 7 check. Retired finance workers and people who handle household investments may type FINANCE. 7,237 is a contributor-record count, not a FINRA census.

A donor who wrote FINANCE on some gifts and INVESTOR on others appears in both occupation totals for those lines. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $63.4 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 $63,396,379, 88,566 contributions, and 7,237 donors. Open the FINANCE occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to compare neighboring titles without merging them.

Do not assign party from the field name. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $63.4 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 securities-industry PAC spending or lobbying registrations.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep FINANCE 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 $63.4 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $63.4 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

FINANCE the occupation is not finance the industry

FINANCE is $63.4 million on 88,566 itemizations from 7,237 donor records. Mean line size is about $716 and mean dollars per donor record are about $8,760, with about 12 itemizations per donor. BANKER, INVESTOR, INVESTMENTS, and MANAGING DIRECTOR are neighboring keys. A “finance people” headline that adds them is a research cluster, not a single FEC field.

Corporate finance staff at non-financial companies can share this occupation word with bank employees. Employer type is not in the box. 7,237 is not a FINRA census. Industry pages will not equal $63,396,379. For citation, occupation equals FINANCE and the three facts travel together on itemized Form 3/3X receipts indexed from FEC.gov. FINANCE as occupation is a field-name people type when they do not choose BANKER or INVESTOR. Seven thousand two hundred thirty-seven donor records and 88,566 itemizations produced $63.4 million. Corporate finance at a manufacturer can share the word with a fund employee. Industry pages will not match. List neighboring keys on the occupations index rather than inventing a capital-markets super-total here.

Questions

How much have FINANCE-occupation donors given?

Occupation FINANCE is attached to $63,396,379 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 88,566 contributions and 7,237 donor records. BANKER and INVESTOR are separate strings. 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 this the same as finance-industry giving?

No. This page filters the occupation column. Industry pages filter employer categories. The two cuts are not interchangeable and should not be added. The matching contribution count is 88,566 and the matching donor-record count is 7,237. 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.

Are bankers included in FINANCE?

Only if they typed FINANCE. Donors who wrote BANKER are on the BANKER page. This total is the FINANCE match: $63,396,379, 88,566 contributions, 7,237 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.

What is the average FINANCE contribution?

$63,396,379 divided by 88,566 itemizations is about $716 per contribution. Divided by 7,237 donors, the mean is about $8,760 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.