MERRILL LYNCH

Merrill Lynch employer text × 2008

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Merrill Lynch and 2008 — sum to $2,243,461. The cell holds 1,731 itemized contributions and 865 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 Merrill Lynch hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Merrill Lynch is the stored two-word brand for 2008. Later corporate labels do not recode this historical cell. MERRILL, MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE FENNER, and BANK OF AMERICA truncations remain other keys if stored separately. Open Merrill Lynch 2008 for the overlay rows, Merrill Lynch for other cycles, and the 2008 election cycle for other employer strings.

Dividing $2,243,461 by 1,731 contributions yields about $1,296.05 per itemized gift. Dividing by 865 donors yields about $2,593.60 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical salary.

2008 as a larger slice of a smaller Merrill book

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $23,982,707. The 2008 slice of $2,243,461 is about 9.35% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 90.65%. Treating 2008 as the entire Merrill Lynch FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $23,982,707 as the denominator for the 9.35% 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 $23,982,707.

Questions

How much did Merrill Lynch donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $2,243,461 in itemized individual contributions for the Merrill Lynch grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,731 contributions and 865 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $23,982,707 all-cycle figure.

What share of Merrill Lynch FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $23,982,707. The 2008 cell of $2,243,461 is about 9.35% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 90.65% on the industry hub. Do not treat 2008 as the whole Merrill Lynch story.

Does this include Bank of America employees?

Only if the stored employer string grouped to Merrill Lynch. A Bank of America spelling is a different key if filers typed it that way. This page does not merge successor labels. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Merrill Lynch hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Merrill Lynch 2008 join?

Open Merrill Lynch 2008 for the cycle overlay, Merrill Lynch 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 names the join; the overlay holds the rows.