Finance occupation money in the 2014 FEC cycle

Finance as occupation, 2014 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string FINANCE. The other is the 2014 federal election cycle. The match is $3,450,111, built from 1,833 contributions and 888 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Fewer than 900 donor IDs produced $3.5 million in a midterm window. Mean dollars per donor sit above high-count trades. The occupation stack is large because the word is common across cycles, not because 2014 is the whole book.

Average contribution is about $1,882; average per donor is about $3,885. Those means are arithmetic on the 2014 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. About 2.1 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio, not a headcount of unique humans behind every spelling variant.

One word that is not an industry code

FINANCE is a one-word occupation string, not a NAICS sector and not an employer grouping. BANKER, FINANCIAL ANALYST, and CFO are other 2014 cells in this slice. Adding them to FINANCE without naming each source total builds a homemade cluster.

$63,396,379 is every cycle combined for FINANCE. $3,450,111 in 2014 is about 5.4% of that stack. Other windows hold about 94.6% ($59,946,268). A cycle cell at 5.4% is a chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history. BANKER, FINANCIAL ANALYST, and CFO are other occupation pages if stored separately. Combining them without naming each source total mixes keys.

888 donors and 1,833 gifts in 2014

888 unique donors against 1,833 contributions implies some repeat giving inside the 2014 window. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. One person can appear more than once if addresses or names vary. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $3,450,111.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode FINANCE into a NAICS industry or a licensing roster. Recipients of the campaign gifts live on the occupation hub and the 2014 cycle hub.

About 5.4% of a $63.4 million occupation stack

5.4% is $3,450,111 divided by $63,396,379. Reading only 2014 understates the parent occupation book. Reading only the parent hides that this cycle’s share is 5.4%. The leftover outside 2014 is $59,946,268. Those other-cycle dollars are not itemized on this relationship page.

Presidential-year and midterm windows are different FEC two-year clocks. This page cites cycle 2014 only. A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $63,396,379 is shared.

What a Finance–2014 join cannot claim

Industry pages that group employers are a different cut. Do not add this occupation-cycle cell to a finance-industry total. Campaign itemizations are not Treasury or Federal Reserve awards.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Correlation between a job title and a cycle total is not causation. Cite $3,450,111, 1,833 contributions, and 888 donors for Finance in 2014. Cite $63,396,379 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov.

Related Finance and 2014 tables

Finance donations is the occupation hub behind $63,396,379. The 2014 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot. If a hub disagrees with $3,450,111, 1,833 gifts, or 888 donor IDs, the hub and FEC.gov control.

Keep the occupation string FINANCE attached to $3,450,111 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2014. Keep 1,833 contributions and 888 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Finance in 2014 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. The all-cycle occupation total $63,396,379 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Finance-labeled donors give in 2014?

The Finance grouping’s 2014 cell is $3,450,111 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,833 contributions and 888 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 this a NAICS finance-sector total?

No. This cell is the self-reported string FINANCE matched to cycle 2014. BANKER, FINANCIAL ANALYST, and CFO are other keys if stored separately. The FEC does not verify that the title matches a license or payroll. See the Finance occupation hub for other cycles and the 2014 cycle hub for other strings.

What share of Finance FEC money fell in 2014?

About 5.4%. $3,450,111 divided by $63,396,379 is the 2014 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 94.6% ($59,946,268) on the occupation hub. See the Finance occupation hub for other cycles and the 2014 cycle hub for other strings.

Should Banker 2014 be added to this cell?

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. $3,450,111 is itemized receipts tagged FINANCE in 2014, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts never enter this cell. FEC.gov is the source.