BROKER

Broker as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Broker and 2008 — sum to $396,906. The cell holds 342 itemized contributions and 83 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Broker hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Broker on an FEC line is a short occupation or employer word, not a Series 7 census. Eighty-three donors in 2008 produced 342 lines. Real Estate Broker is a longer string with its own cycle cells. Do not add those cells to this one-word total. STOCKBROKER, REAL ESTATE BROKER, INSURANCE BROKER, and named firms remain other keys. This page is the one-word Broker string.

6.8% of the Broker roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,804,460 ($5.8 million). The 2008 slice of $396,906 is about 6.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.2%. Treating 2008 as the Broker FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,804,460 as the denominator for the 6.8% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $5,804,460.

Questions

How much did Broker donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $396,906 in itemized individual contributions for the Broker grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 342 contributions and 83 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,804,460 all-cycle figure.

What share of Broker FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,804,460. The 2008 cell of $396,906 is about 6.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.2% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Broker hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed brokers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Broker. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $396,906 from 83 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Broker 2008 join?

Open Broker 2008 for the cycle overlay, Broker for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.