Investment Banking donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Investment Banking × 2008

INVESTMENT BANKING plus cycle 2008 equals $848,092. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Investment banker, banker, managing director, and investment bank are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a bulge-bracket headcount, a FINRA registration file, or a deal-tombstone census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Investment Banking donations at /occupations/investment-banking/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $848,092 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Investment Banking in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $848,092. Advisory versus markets versus coverage groups is unpublished for Investment Banking in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

INVESTMENT BANKING as an industry string

$6.1 million ($6,137,543) belongs to the exact string INVESTMENT BANKING across harvested cycles. It is not a bulge-bracket headcount, a FINRA registration file, or a deal-tombstone census. People who wrote nearby wording — investment banker, banker, managing director, and investment bank — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 13.8% of that title bucket. Share of INVESTMENT BANKING is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $848,092. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $6,137,543. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Investment Banking donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $848,092.

676 investment-banking receipts in 2008

404 donors and 676 receipts — about 1.7 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,255; mean per donor about $2,099. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 404 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 676 is a line count, not 404 one-time gifts; receipts sit close to the donor count, so many people in the cell appear on a small number of lines. Advisory versus markets versus coverage groups is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by INVESTMENT BANKING. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $848,092.

Industry label versus banker title and PACs

Cite $848,092 as Investment Banking in 2008. Cite $6,137,543 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add securities-industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $848,092 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 13.8%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode INVESTMENT BANKING into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite investment-banking money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation INVESTMENT BANKING, election cycle 2008, $848,092 in itemized individual contributions, 676 receipts, and 404 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,255 per line and $2,099 per donor in the cell. If the live Investment Banking donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 676 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Investment Banking donations rolls every cycle into one INVESTMENT BANKING running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Investment Banking × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 676 receipts and $848,092. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did investment banking filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Investment Banking itemized $848,092 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 676 receipts and 404 donors. That is 13.8% of $6,137,543 under INVESTMENT BANKING. Investment banker, banker, managing director, and investment bank are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include securities-firm PACs?

No. $848,092 is individual contributions tagged Investment Banking in 2008. Securities-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $848,092 would blend FEC tables. See Investment Banking donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Investment Banking in 2008 is $848,092 on 676 receipts from 404 donors.

Are investment banking labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses INVESTMENT BANKING. Investment banker, banker, managing director, and investment bank are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a bulge-bracket headcount, a FINRA registration file, or a deal-tombstone census. Cite $848,092 for this title in 2008 on 676 receipts from 404 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Investment Banking donations ($6.1 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $848,092 from 676 receipts and 404 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Investment Banking in 2008.