Financial Advisor political contributions from New Jersey

Why $1,162,915 is a join, not a hub restatement

LobbyVault keeps a Financial Advisor occupation page and a New Jersey state page. Neither page is this join. The join is $1,162,915 from 2,884 contributions and 234 donors where occupation equals FINANCIAL ADVISOR and state equals NJ. Against the occupation total of $27,416,858, that is 4.2%. Other states hold $26,253,943.

Do not treat 4.2% as Financial Advisor workers’ share of all New Jersey receipts. The state hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 234 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in New Jersey. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

Donor state NJ is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a New Jersey professional license, and not a limit to New Jersey candidates. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

What $27,416,858 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, Financial Advisor indexes $27,416,858 of itemized individual receipts across harvested geography. $1,162,915 is already inside that total; adding $1,162,915 to $27,416,858 would double-count the New Jersey slice. Financial Advisor occupation pages still mix New Jersey with every other state.

FINANCIAL ADVISOR is the typed spelling with -or. Financial Adviser with -er and Investment Advisor are other keys when those characters appear. Licensure is not verified. Keep the exact string on the citation so Financial Advisor is not merged with a sibling title. Financial Adviser, Investment Advisor, Wealth Advisor, and Registered Rep are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a state filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Financial Advisor in New Jersey.

What the New Jersey hub still mixes

New Jersey campaign finance still holds teachers, retirees, attorneys, and every other occupation string that used NJ. Adding those dollars to $1,162,915 would destroy the occupation filter. Subtracting $1,162,915 from an unpublished statewide total is also out of scope: this packet does not include a New Jersey all-occupation dollar figure.

What this page does include on the state side: 2,884 contributions, 234 donors, $1,162,915. Those three numbers share the occupation filter FINANCIAL ADVISOR. Without that filter they are not this join.

Donor keys, lines, and means for Financial Advisor in New Jersey

2,884 contributions totaling $1,162,915 is the operational definition of the New Jersey side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 234. About 12.3 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $403 per line and $4,970 per donor should never be quoted as a typical Financial Advisor gift in New Jersey. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 234 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $1,162,915 from 2,884 contributions and 234 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. Financial Advisor × New Jersey is a database join.

Researchers should keep FINANCIAL ADVISOR as the stored occupation string and NJ as the donor-state tag. FINANCIAL ADVISOR is the typed spelling with -or. Financial Adviser with -er and Investment Advisor are other keys when those characters appear. Licensure is not verified. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Financial Advisor next to other New Jersey occupation strings

Other occupation strings in New Jersey live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $1,162,915. Financial Adviser, Investment Advisor, Wealth Advisor, and Registered Rep are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-state cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 234 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Financial Advisor, donor state New Jersey (NJ), $1,162,915 itemized, 2,884 contributions, 234 donors, 4.2% of $27,416,858. FINANCIAL ADVISOR is the typed spelling with -or. Financial Adviser with -er and Investment Advisor are other keys when those characters appear. Licensure is not verified. Financial Adviser, Investment Advisor, Wealth Advisor, and Registered Rep stay on other occupation pages. The New Jersey campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

What is the New Jersey Financial Advisor contribution total?

$1,162,915 from 2,884 itemized contributions and 234 donor keys whose occupation grouped to FINANCIAL ADVISOR and whose donor state grouped to NJ. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $27,416,858. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of Financial Advisor occupation receipts is New Jersey?

4.2%. That is $1,162,915 divided by $27,416,858. The complement is $26,253,943 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 3.1%; donor share is 4.3%.

Does occupation FINANCIAL ADVISOR mean the donors were licensed in New Jersey?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. FINANCIAL ADVISOR is the typed spelling with -or. Financial Adviser with -er and Investment Advisor are other keys when those characters appear. Licensure is not verified. 234 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $1,162,915 on 2,884 lines.

Where are the live Financial Advisor and New Jersey tables?

Financial Advisor donations carries the $27,416,858 occupation total. New Jersey campaign finance places Financial Advisor beside other occupation strings in that state. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Financial Advisor × New Jersey intersection only.