Banker political contributions from Pennsylvania

The Banker–Pennsylvania intersection

Occupation BANKER and donor state PA produce $1,358,416, 4,311 contributions, and 258 donors. The occupation hub is $58,732,088, 145,114 contributions, and 10,578 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 2.3%; contribution share about 3.0% (4,311 of 145,114); donor share about 2.4% (258 of 10,578). Two hundred fifty-eight Pennsylvania donors are 2.4% of 10,578 national BANKER donors. Contribution share (4,311 of 145,114) is about 3.0%, a bit ahead of the 2.3% dollar share of $58,732,088.

BANKING, INVESTMENT BANKER, and BANK OFFICER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack BANKER with BANKING or INVESTMENT BANKER into a single Pennsylvania professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

258 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,311 contributions, about 16.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.7 rows per donor nationally (145,114 contributions from 10,578 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Pennsylvania cell is about $315, against about $405 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s share of $58,732,088 is an address-coded slice of a large finance label, not a ranking of Philadelphia or Pittsburgh banks. Mean gift here is about $315, below the national Banker mean of about $405.

BANKER as a one-word occupation string

BANKER is a filer-entered string. Retail, commercial, and investment banking are unpublished. The file stores the word BANKER, not a NAICS code or a charter type. The $58,732,088 national total is BANKER only. 10,578 donors produced 145,114 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 145,114 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Pennsylvania (PA). This page locates the Pennsylvania overlap. It does not name banks or count officers among the 258 Pennsylvania donors.

Pennsylvania as donor state

258 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,311 contributions totaling $1,358,416. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. PA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Pennsylvania bank charter and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. A donor can work for an out-of-state bank and still file PA.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only BANKER. The Banker occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 97.7% of the $58,732,088. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every occupation coded to PA. BANKER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Banker plus Pennsylvania

This page does not merge Banking dollars, count bank officers, or claim that Banker-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. BANKER is not BANKING and not INVESTMENT BANKER. Those strings, if used, never enter the $1,358,416.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BANKER is not an FDIC or bank-officer roster. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Bank names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Banker filter

Subtract the Pennsylvania 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 ($57,373,672) 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 of 258 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 4,311 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,358,416 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the BANKER national total, drops a key. Two hundred fifty-eight donors producing 4,311 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,358,416 headline.

Related tables

Banker donations holds the $58,732,088 national occupation total. Pennsylvania campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. INVESTMENT BANKER is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Banker donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BANKER and state Pennsylvania total $1,358,416, from 4,311 contributions and 258 donors. Nationwide, BANKER-coded receipts are $58,732,088 from 145,114 contributions and 10,578 donors. Pennsylvania is about 2.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Banker mean investment bankers only?

The file does not say. BANKER is the string the filer typed. INVESTMENT BANKER is a different key if those two words appear. Two hundred fifty-eight Pennsylvania donors used BANKER plus PA. The 258 Pennsylvania donors used occupation BANKER and state PA. Filers who wrote BANKING or INVESTMENT BANKER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Banker FEC money is from Pennsylvania?

About 2.3% of the $58,732,088 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($1,358,416). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 3.0% of contributions (4,311 of 145,114) and about 2.4% of donors (258 of 10,578). About 2.3% of dollars from 258 of 10,578 donors and 4,311 of 145,114 contributions.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,358,416 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to PA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.