Finance occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Joining FINANCE to the 2008 cycle

Finance in 2008 is $4,158,982 on 2,847 itemized lines from 1,495 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2008 accounts for 6.6% of the Finance occupation total ($4,158,982 of $63,396,379). Most Finance-coded dollars sit in other FEC cycles. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

2,847 contributions from 1,495 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 1,495 people still used that title after 2008.

This page is not a restatement of the Finance hub or of the 2008 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $4,158,982.

Reading FINANCE without merging sibling titles

Filers who typed the word finance produced the all-cycle occupation total of $63,396,379. FINANCE is a one-word occupation, closer to a sector word than a job title. FINANCIAL ADVISOR and INVESTMENTS remain separate. The 2008 join does not assign employers or NAICS codes to those receipts. The occupation is not a NAICS finance-sector total, a bank PAC, or a household-finance AUM figure.

Reading 2008 without treating it as all Finance money

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Finance. $4,158,982 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

2,847 contributions from 1,495 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $1,461; mean per donor about $2,782. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $4,158,982. Three numbers define the Finance × 2008 cell: dollars $4,158,982, contribution rows 2,847, unique donors 1,495. Share of occupation dollars is 6.6% of $63,396,379.

How not to read Finance money in 2008

Matching Finance with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Finance donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a NAICS finance-sector total, a bank PAC, or a household-finance AUM figure.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FINANCE is a one-word occupation, closer to a sector word than a job title. FINANCIAL ADVISOR and INVESTMENTS remain separate. The 2008 join does not assign employers or NAICS codes to those receipts. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $4,158,982 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Finance donations hub is $63,396,379; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Finance and 2008 tables

Finance donations holds the $63,396,379 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Finance. All occupations places FINANCE beside other titles without merging sibling strings (FINANCIAL ADVISOR, INVESTMENTS, and BANKER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $4,158,982 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Finance dollars ($63,396,379). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $4,158,982, 2,847 contributions, 1,495 donors, 6.6% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Using the Finance 2008 figures in a citation

A usable sentence names both sides: occupation FINANCE, cycle 2008, $4,158,982 itemized, 2,847 contributions, 1,495 donors, source FEC.gov. $4.2 million is a rounded form of $4,158,982.

Do not cite $63,396,379 as the 2008 figure. $63,396,379 is all-cycle Finance. Do not cite a cycle-wide total from this page; $4,158,982 is Finance only.

Questions

How much did Finance-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Finance grouping’s 2008 cell is $4,158,982 in itemized individual contributions, from 2,847 contributions and 1,495 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $63,396,379 all-cycle occupation total.

Is Finance a NAICS industry total?

No. FINANCE here is an occupation string on individual contributions, not a NAICS finance-sector roll-up. The 2008 cycle filter on Finance is $4,158,982, 2,847 contributions, and 1,495 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $63,396,379. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Finance FEC money fell in 2008?

About 6.6%. $4,158,982 divided by $63,396,379 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 93.4% ($59,237,397) on the occupation hub. See the Finance occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Finance 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $4,158,982 is itemized receipts tagged FINANCE in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.