Stockbroker political money — 2008 cycle

Two keys: Stockbroker and 2008

The relationship is mechanical: stored occupation text STOCKBROKER plus cycle year 2008. FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates put $262,016 at that intersection, from 206 itemized gifts and 58 unique donors. No recipient names appear in this packet. Independent expenditures sit outside the cell.

Stockbroker is self-reported occupation title, not a brokerage PAC, not a FINRA roster, and not a securities NAICS total. STOCK BROKER, BROKER, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, and named firm employers are other keys. The FEC does not verify that the string matches a legal employer, a license, or a current job.

Readers who want the year without Stockbroker use 2008 election cycle. Readers who want Stockbroker without 2008 use Stockbroker. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain the dollar cell.

Where 2008 sits on the Stockbroker hub

6.8% is $262,016 divided by $3,860,967. That arithmetic uses only packet facts. The leftover 93.2% equals $3,598,951 and lives on other cycle pages for Stockbroker. A mid-single-digit share (or any other share this packet happens to show) is not a peak-year claim.

$3,860,967 is a sum of itemized individual receipts grouped to STOCKBROKER across cycles in this table. It is not assets, payroll, or a federal award total. Sharing a calendar year with USAspending records does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Keep the 6.8% attached to Stockbroker and 2008 together.

Means on the Stockbroker 2008 packet

Dividing $262,016 by 206 contributions yields about $1,272 per itemized gift. Dividing by 58 donors yields about $4,518 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim.

58 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 Stockbroker 2008 holds the rows.

2008 is not election night

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

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $262,016 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 206 contributions, the 58 unique donors, and the 6.8% share of $3,860,967.

Separate datasets stay separate

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $262,016. 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 self-reported occupation title, not a brokerage PAC, not a FINRA roster, and not a securities NAICS total.

Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 58 donors, and 206 contributions. STOCK BROKER, BROKER, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, and named firm employers are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Using Stockbroker 2008 as the row source

Start with $262,016, then Stockbroker 2008 for rows, then Stockbroker or 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: STOCKBROKER, 2008, $262,016, 206 contributions, 58 donors, 6.8% of $3,860,967, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 6.8% share, the 58-donor count, and the $1,272 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. 206 itemized contributions totaling $262,016 average about $1,272 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Stockbroker donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $262,016 in itemized individual contributions for the Stockbroker grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 206 contributions and 58 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,860,967 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Stockbroker FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,860,967. The 2008 cell of $262,016 is about 6.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.2% ($3,598,951) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently licensed stockbrokers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string STOCKBROKER. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $262,016 from 58 donors across 206 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Stockbroker 2008 join?

Open Stockbroker 2008 for the cycle overlay, Stockbroker for the grouping hub, and 2008 election cycle for the year without this occupation filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $262,016, 206 contributions, and 58 donors.