Banker political contributions from Illinois

The Banker–Illinois overlap

Occupation BANKER and donor state IL produce $2,995,682, 7,263 contributions, and 581 donors. The occupation hub is $58,732,088, 145,114 contributions, and 10,578 donors. Illinois’s share of dollars is about 5%; of contributions, about 5% (7,263 of 145,114); of donors, about 5% (581 of 10,578).

The three shares sit on top of each other. Illinois Banker-coded receipts track the national mix on people, rows, and dollars. That proportional slice is the opposite of the Illinois Trader join, where the state holds about 30% of that other occupation’s dollars. Different strings, different overlaps. Do not merge BANKER and TRADER into a single Illinois finance figure.

Five hundred eighty-one Illinois donors produced 7,263 contributions, about 13 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 14 rows per donor nationally (145,114 contributions from 10,578 donors). The Illinois Banker slice tracks the national mix on that ratio and on the about 5% dollar share of $58,732,088. A proportional overlap is still an overlap: the occupation hub without IL and the Illinois hub without BANKER are different tables.

Banker as a short FEC label

BANKER can mean a commercial banker, an investment banker who used the shorter word, a retired banker, or a credit-union officer. INVESTMENT BANKER is a separate occupation hub with its own national total. Filers who wrote that longer string are not in this $58,732,088.

Ten thousand five hundred seventy-eight donors and 145,114 contributions describe the BANKER bucket only. This page does not split those rows by cycle or by bank. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois.

Illinois as donor state

Five hundred eighty-one Illinois donors produced 7,263 contributions totaling $2,995,682. The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. Bankers on this page are a subset of that hub, not the state’s entire itemized individual activity.

Donor state IL is the address on the record. It is not proof of a Chicago bank job and not a limit to Illinois candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

Trader is a separate Illinois occupation filter. BANKER and TRADER do not add into a single Illinois finance figure. The Banker occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 95% of the $58,732,088. The Illinois state hub includes every other occupation coded IL. Keep the keys separate.

What the join is not

This page does not measure bank assets, CRA ratings, or whether Banker-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

BANKER is not a call-report job code and not an OCC charter list. INVESTMENT BANKER, if typed, lives in another hub. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and bank PACs are omitted. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Reading Banker and Illinois as two keys

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national Banker occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Banker in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the Banker national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related tables

Banker donations holds the $58,732,088 national occupation total. Illinois campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs built from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Banker donors in Illinois contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Banker and state Illinois total $2,995,682, from 7,263 contributions and 581 donors. Nationwide, Banker-coded receipts are $58,732,088 from 145,114 contributions and 10,578 donors. Illinois is about 5% of those dollars.

Is Banker the same as Investment Banker or Trader?

No. BANKER, INVESTMENT BANKER, and TRADER are different occupation strings. This join’s $2,995,682 is BANKER-and-IL only. Illinois also has a Trader tie with its own facts. Adding those dollars would mix labels filers kept separate.

How many Illinois Banker donors are in the file?

This join counts 581 donors, 7,263 contributions, and $2,995,682. Nationally the Banker label covers 10,578 donors. Illinois is about 5% of those donors, about 5% of contributions, and about 5% of dollars.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates only?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,995,682 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.