Salomon Brothers and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Legacy employer spelling × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Salomon Brothers and 2008 — sum to $363,044. The cell holds 194 itemized contributions and 59 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 Salomon Brothers hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Salomon Brothers as a 2008 employer string can include alumni who still typed a legacy bank name. Fifty-nine donors and 194 lines are text matches, not a 2008 headcount of a firm that had already been absorbed. Successor labels keep their own pages. Do not add them here. SALOMON SMITH BARNEY, CITIGROUP, SMITH BARNEY, and generic BANKER or TRADER strings are other keys.

2.3% of the Salomon Brothers roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $16,116,904 ($16.1 million). The 2008 slice of $363,044 is about 2.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.7%. Treating 2008 as the Salomon Brothers FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $16,116,904 as the denominator for the 2.3% 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 $16,116,904.

194 contributions from 59 donors

Dividing $363,044 by 194 contributions yields about $1,871 per itemized gift. Dividing by 59 donors yields about $6,153 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

59 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 Salomon Brothers 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Salomon Brothers is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Salomon Brothers to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $363,044 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 194 contributions, the 59 unique donors, and the 2.3% share of $16,116,904.

Why successor labels stay off this page

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $363,044. 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 securities 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, 59 donors, and 194 contributions. SALOMON SMITH BARNEY, CITIGROUP, SMITH BARNEY, and generic BANKER or TRADER strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Salomon Brothers and 2008 together

Start with $363,044, then Salomon Brothers 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Salomon Brothers, 2008, $363,044, 194 contributions, 59 donors, 2.3% of $16,116,904, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 2.3% share, the 59-donor count, and the $1,871 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. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Salomon Brothers donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $363,044 in itemized individual contributions for the Salomon Brothers grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 194 contributions and 59 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $16,116,904 all-cycle figure.

What share of Salomon Brothers FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $16,116,904. The 2008 cell of $363,044 is about 2.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.7% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Salomon Brothers hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Should successor or longer spellings be added to this 2008 total?

No. This page is the stored string Salomon Brothers only. Successor labels and longer legal names are different groupings with their own cycle cells. Combining them would invent a total neither packet publishes as a join. The 2008 cell here is $363,044.

Where is the overlay for the Salomon Brothers 2008 join?

Open Salomon Brothers 2008 for the cycle overlay, Salomon Brothers 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 file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.