Investment banker donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

Investment banker × 2010

Two filters: the occupation field equals INVESTMENT BANKER, and the receipt sits in the 2010 cycle. The overlap is $1,928,777, which is 6.4% of $30,023,152 for the string. Banker, managing director, and trader are other keys when that is what was typed.

2010 was a midterm cycle in the FEC calendar. This packet does not compare $1.9 million to a presidential year. It reports the cell that exists. The Investment Banker donations hub holds the occupation rollup; the 2010 election cycle hub holds the cycle’s other occupations.

The occupation hub for Investment Banker lists $30.0 million ($30,023,152) under the exact string INVESTMENT BANKER. The 2010 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2010, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

A title, not a firm list

$30.0 million is the harvested total for this title string, not a league table of banks. Employer names — the usual way reporters group Wall Street — are not in these facts. People who wrote banker or finance without the two-word title are outside the occupation total.

Because the title is specific, the occupation bucket ($30,023,152) is smaller than generic finance labels. Specificity is a filing choice, not a proof of job function. FEC.gov stores the characters.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,928,777. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $30,023,152. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Investment Banker donations and the live 2010 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

669 donors, 1,548 lines

669 donors and 1,548 receipts imply about 2.3 gifts per donor. Mean dollars per donor about $2,883; mean per receipt about $1,246. With 669 donors, the mean is sensitive to the upper tail. This packet has no median.

Repeat itemizations, joint fundraising memo entries, and primary-plus-general pairs all add receipts. 1,548 is a line count. It is not 669 people each giving once.

1,548 is a receipt count. 669 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.9 million.

What to cite

Cite $1,928,777 for Investment Banker in 2010. Cite $30,023,152 for the occupation string across cycles. Do not add them. Do not call 6.4% a market share of finance giving; other finance strings are other rows.

Individual contributions are not Super PAC expenditures. All occupations and All FEC ties keep those distinctions by sending the reader to the matching hub instead of blending columns.

Dividing $1,928,777 by 1,548 receipts yields about $1,246 per line. Dividing by 669 donors yields about $2,883 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

No firm, no motive, no party

Investment Banker is self-reported. LobbyVault does not match FINRA registrations or deal tombstones. A person who left banking but still typed the title is in $1.9 million; a current banker who typed managing director is not.

This page does not rank finance jobs or infer policy preferences from $1,928,777. Party and committee fields are absent from the packet.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode INVESTMENT BANKER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did investment bankers donate in 2010?

The INVESTMENT BANKER occupation string accounts for $1,928,777 in FEC individual contributions in the 2010 cycle, from 1,548 receipts and 669 donors. That cell is 6.4% of $30,023,152 harvested under the same title. Banker and trader are separate keys when those words appear on the form.

Why are there fewer donors than receipts?

669 donors produced 1,548 itemized lines, about 2.3 receipts per donor. Repeat gifts, memo entries, and multiple committees all add rows. The donor count is distinct people inside this occupation-cycle cell, not a census of investment bankers in the labor force.

Does this include bank PACs or corporate treasury money?

No. $1.9 million is individual contributions tagged Investment Banker. Separate segregated funds and independent expenditures are different FEC files. Employer is not a fact here, so this page does not group the $1,928,777 by bank name. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Investment Banker in 2010 is $1,928,777 on 1,548 receipts from 669 donors.

What is the source for these totals?

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle. The 2010 cell is $1,928,777; the occupation rollup is $30,023,152. Labels are filer-entered. Live hubs for Investment Banker donations and the 2010 election cycle carry named committees.