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FINANCE

Total Donated

$63,396,379

Contributions

88,566

Unique Donors

7,237

Donors who listed FINANCE as occupation account for $63,396,379 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those receipts are 88,566 contributions from 7,237 donor records. FINANCE is a field-name people type in the occupation box. It is not a NAICS industry rollup and it is not merged with BANKER, INVESTOR, or INVESTMENTS. In compact form that dollar total is $63.4 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • FINANCE occupation itemizations sum to $63,396,379 from 88,566 contributions and 7,237 donors.
  • Mean amounts are about $716 per contribution and about $8,760 per donor record.
  • BANKER, INVESTOR, and INVESTMENTS are separate occupation keys.
  • This is occupation text, not a NAICS finance-industry total.

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.

Full analysis: FINANCE as an occupation word in FEC filings →

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.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

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