INVESTMENT BANKING

Function-string receipts under $6.1 million

$6,137,543 is the occupation-level dollar total. 15,820 is the itemization count. 1,044 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $388 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,879 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 15 itemizations per donor record. Fifteen thousand-plus lines from 1,044 donor records is a mid-to-high frequency finance key rather than a thin stack of outsized checks.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $388 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per line sit below concentrated dual-title CEO keys with similar headline dollars. This bucket is heavier on line count than on dollars per line.

Banking versus banker as occupation text

Some donors write INVESTMENT BANKING; others write INVESTMENT BANKER, IBD, or MANAGING DIRECTOR. FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. LobbyVault does not merge them.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals INVESTMENT BANKING after indexing. INVESTMENT BANKER, BANKER, and INVESTMENT ANALYST remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to INVESTMENT BANKING.

Questions

How much have investment banking donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list INVESTMENT BANKING sum to $6,137,543 across 15,820 contributions and 1,044 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is investment banker included in this total?

Only if the occupation field equals INVESTMENT BANKING. INVESTMENT BANKER is a different key. This page is $6,137,543, 15,820 contributions, and 1,044 donors for the banking-function string. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does this represent Wall Street as a sector?

No. It is one occupation string. Many finance employees use other titles. Industry pages group employer-side data. The occupation total remains $6,137,543. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

What is the average contribution in this file?

Dividing $6,137,543 by 15,820 itemizations yields about $388 per contribution. Dividing by 1,044 donors yields about $5,879 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.