Banker political contributions from Texas

BANKER and Texas, read together

Two FEC fields define this page: occupation BANKER and contributor state Texas. Their overlap is $6,398,217 from 1,085 donors and 12,260 receipts. That is about 11% of the occupation’s $58,732,088, about 8% of 145,114 contributions, and about 10% of 10,578 donors. Dollar share slightly exceeds contribution share, so Texas BANKER receipts run a bit larger on average than the national mix for this string.

Average itemized gift in the join is about $522 ($6,398,217 / 12,260). Bank officer, bank president, and investment banker are not rolled in. Those strings, if present, sit on other occupation pages. This join is the word BANKER only.

The 12,260 Texas BANKER receipts sit inside 145,114 national gifts. That 8% contribution share against an 11% dollar share is a modest tilt, not a spike. Read $6,398,217 as 1,085 people using one word and a Texas address, then use the BANKER occupation hub for the other 9,493 donors.

BANKER as filed across the country

Ten thousand five hundred seventy-eight donors used BANKER on receipts totaling $58,732,088 in 145,114 itemized gifts. The label does not distinguish retail banking, commercial lending, or a courtesy title. It is whatever committees typed.

Most BANKER dollars are not in this Texas cell ($58,732,088 minus $6,398,217). The occupation is geographically spread. Texas is one large state in that spread, not a substitute for the national occupation hub.

The Texas BANKER slice

One thousand eighty-five Texas donors produced 12,260 BANKER-tagged contributions totaling $6,398,217. Repeat itemization is visible in the gap between donor count and contribution count. The Texas campaign-finance page shows this occupation beside other TX finance strings so BANKER is not treated as all Texas financial giving.

Address state can be home, branch, or mailing address. A banker who works in Texas and lives in another state may fall outside the $6,398,217. The join does not locate bank charters or headquarters.

Average gift about $522 with 12,260 receipts is a mid-volume pattern. It is not a handful of seven-figure outliers and not a teacher-style small-dollar swarm. Read it as 1,085 people, many repeat gifts, Texas addresses, this exact string. The Texas hub and the BANKER occupation hub supply the two parent views.

Boundaries of a job-word join

These figures are federal individual contributions, not bank PAC activity and not Texas state campaign filings. Occupation is not a finding that banking regulation caused the gifts. Recipient committees are outside the two-column filter.

Self-reported titles split people who do similar work. Use the occupations index to find neighboring finance labels, then other ties pages to see BANKER in states besides Texas. Source files remain FEC.gov aggregates.

Pages that sit behind this join

Open Banker donations for the $58,732,088 national series, Texas campaign finance for all TX occupations, the occupations index for related titles, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state intersections. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Banking language that is not bank PAC money

Texas BANKER ($6,398,217 from 1,085 donors and 12,260 gifts) is personal itemized giving as reported, not the separate world of bank trade-association PACs or corporate treasury contributions. Mixing those systems inflates a number that this join does not contain. The occupation string is $58,732,088 nationally from 10,578 donors; Texas is about 11% of that personal-occupation series.

Investment banker, if present as its own occupation page, is excluded. So are bank president, bank officer, and finance. The 1,085 Texas keys used the word BANKER. People who do similar work under other titles are on other pages. That fragmentation is the cost of not recoding free text.

A mid-volume finance join is easy to over-read as an industry. BANKER on 1,085 Texas receipts totaling $6,398,217 does not identify charters, holding companies, or retail versus commercial work. It identifies a word and an address state. The remaining $58,732,088 minus $6,398,217, from 10,578 minus 1,085 donors, is the rest of the occupation as filed, and it is not described on this page.

Questions

How much have Texas banker donors given according to the FEC?

Donors listing occupation BANKER with a Texas address reported $6,398,217 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,085 donors and 12,260 receipts. That is about 11% of the $58,732,088 recorded nationally under BANKER. The join is not a roster of Texas bank employees or a total of bank PAC spending.

Does BANKER include investment bankers?

Only if the occupation field is exactly BANKER. Nationally that string is $58,732,088 from 10,578 donors. Investment banker and similar titles are separate occupation pages. This Texas join ($6,398,217 from 1,085 donors) does not add them.

How does Texas compare with national Banker totals?

Texas is about 11% of dollars ($6,398,217 of $58,732,088), about 8% of contributions (12,260 of 145,114), and about 10% of donors (1,085 of 10,578). Average itemized gift in the Texas join is about $522. Most BANKER money remains attributed to other states.

Are these contributions to Texas candidates?

The filter is contributor state plus occupation, not recipient office. A Texas-addressed BANKER can give to any FEC-registered committee. The $6,398,217 from 12,260 receipts is not mapped to Texas races on this page The packet totals for this join remain the occupation–state filter described above, with no extra dollar figures beyond those facts.