Merrill Lynch contributions in the 2008 FEC cycle

Merrill Lynch employer text × 2008

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Merrill Lynch and 2008 — sum to $2,243,461. The cell holds 1,731 itemized contributions and 865 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Merrill Lynch hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Merrill Lynch is the stored two-word brand for 2008. Later corporate labels do not recode this historical cell. MERRILL, MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE FENNER, and BANK OF AMERICA truncations remain other keys if stored separately. Open Merrill Lynch 2008 for the overlay rows, Merrill Lynch for other cycles, and the 2008 election cycle for other employer strings.

Dividing $2,243,461 by 1,731 contributions yields about $1,296.05 per itemized gift. Dividing by 865 donors yields about $2,593.60 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical salary.

2008 as a larger slice of a smaller Merrill book

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $23,982,707. The 2008 slice of $2,243,461 is about 9.35% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 90.65%. Treating 2008 as the entire Merrill Lynch FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $23,982,707 as the denominator for the 9.35% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $23,982,707.

Merrill Lynch 2008 lines and unique keys

865 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Merrill Lynch 2008 holds the rows. This JSON file does not invent donor names.

2008 is a presidential two-year FEC window. Gifts from both years of that window sit in the $2,243,461 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. The overlay is where dates become visible. Unitemized gifts never enter $2,243,461.

Successor names stay off this 2008 cell

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $2,243,461. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a broker-dealer NAICS total and not a successor-bank PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 865 donors, and 1,731 contributions. MERRILL, MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE FENNER, and BANK OF AMERICA truncations remain other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

How to cite Merrill Lynch and 2008

Start with $2,243,461, then Merrill Lynch 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Merrill Lynch, 2008, $2,243,461, 1,731 contributions, 865 donors, 9.35% of $23,982,707, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string. Do not invent donor names. The packet counts 865 contributor identities and 1,731 Schedule A lines, not a payroll.

The 9.35% share, the 865-donor count, and the $1,296.05 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. 2008 remains a two-year FEC tag. $2,243,461 is the Merrill Lynch × 2008 cell only.

Merrill Lynch hub and cycle 2008

The Merrill Lynch hub holds other cycles on the same string. The 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer and occupation keys from the same window. All FEC ties lists sibling joins. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control. Federal awards that share a calendar year with these gifts remain a different dataset.

Questions

How much did Merrill Lynch donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $2,243,461 in itemized individual contributions for the Merrill Lynch grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,731 contributions and 865 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $23,982,707 all-cycle figure.

What share of Merrill Lynch FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $23,982,707. The 2008 cell of $2,243,461 is about 9.35% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 90.65% on the industry hub. Do not treat 2008 as the whole Merrill Lynch story.

Does this include Bank of America employees?

Only if the stored employer string grouped to Merrill Lynch. A Bank of America spelling is a different key if filers typed it that way. This page does not merge successor labels. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Merrill Lynch hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Merrill Lynch 2008 join?

Open Merrill Lynch 2008 for the cycle overlay, Merrill Lynch for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON names the join; the overlay holds the rows.