What financial-services occupation donors give in federal races

Sector phrase used as a job title

$7,119,440, 14,435 itemizations, and 1,146 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $493. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,212. Repeat giving is about 13 itemizations per donor record.

14,435 lines from 1,146 records is a mid-volume sector-phrase stack. The $493 per-line mean sits near other finance occupation keys. The packet has no broker-versus-banker split, no Series license field, and no median gift.

1,146 donor records on 14,435 lines is a mid-volume sector-phrase pool: about 13 itemizations per record. The $493 per-line mean sits near other finance occupation keys and above CONTROLLER. The packet has no broker-versus-banker split, no license field, and no party flag, so $7,119,440 cannot be read as a licensed-advisor census.

FINANCIAL SERVICES is not BANKER and not FINANCIAL ADVISOR

The FEC record does not verify that the donor works at a bank, broker-dealer, or insurance firm. Advisors, operations staff, and retirees can all type FINANCIAL SERVICES. Best-efforts rules do not force a FINRA taxonomy.

This page cites only $7,119,440, 14,435 contributions, and 1,146 donors. BANKER, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, and INVESTMENT BANKER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them. Combining those strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC occupation to a homemade cluster.

Donor records and dual finance labels

1,146 donor records used FINANCIAL SERVICES on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed FINANCIAL SERVICES 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 or firm type from the two-word phrase. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $7,119,440.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 14,435 lines are occupation-side totals only. Refunds, redesignations, and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Do not treat $7,119,440 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Do not add this occupation to industry pages

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A wealth advisor and a back-office clerk share this occupation string if they typed FINANCIAL SERVICES. Adding $7,119,440 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the FINANCIAL SERVICES occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to BANKER and FINANCIAL ADVISOR.

FINANCIAL SERVICES dollars of $7,119,440 sit on 14,435 itemizations from 1,146 donor records. The two-word occupation is not a FINRA roster and should not be added to industry-page totals. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code and never enter this total.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals FINANCIAL SERVICES, dollars equal $7,119,440, contributions equal 14,435, donors equal 1,146, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

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.

Reading FINANCIAL SERVICES as a sector-phrase key

FINANCIAL SERVICES in this extract is $7,119,440 on 14,435 itemizations from 1,146 donor records, or $7.1 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. People who type FINANCE, BANKER, or ADVISOR may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact FINANCIAL SERVICES key is in $7,119,440.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $493 per contribution and about $6,212 per donor record, with roughly 13 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 1,146 donor records on 14,435 lines is a mid-volume sector-phrase pool, not a census of licensed advisors.

Industry pages should not be added to $7,119,440. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals FINANCIAL SERVICES, dollars equal $7,119,440, contributions equal 14,435, donors equal 1,146.

FINANCIAL SERVICES as an occupation string is not the same cut as an industry page that groups banks or broker-dealers. This page is only FINANCIAL SERVICES: $7,119,440, 14,435 contributions, 1,146 donors. BANKER and FINANCIAL ADVISOR remain other occupation keys. Adding occupation dollars to industry dollars double-counts the same itemized receipts.

Questions

How much have financial-services occupation donors given in FEC data?

The FINANCIAL SERVICES occupation string is attached to $7,119,440 across 14,435 contributions and 1,146 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not an industry NAICS total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does FINANCIAL SERVICES include bankers and advisors?

Only if those donors typed FINANCIAL SERVICES. BANKER and FINANCIAL ADVISOR are separate keys unless the extract merged them. This page covers FINANCIAL SERVICES: $7,119,440, 14,435 contributions, and 1,146 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average financial-services occupation contribution?

Dividing $7,119,440 by 14,435 itemizations yields about $493 per contribution. Dividing by 1,146 donors yields about $6,212 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 13 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing financial services prove a securities license?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify FINRA or state licenses. Quote 14,435 contributions and 1,146 donor records with the $7,119,440 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.