What airline pilot donors give in federal races

High-frequency itemization under $6.7 million

$6,657,691 is the occupation-level dollar total. 63,790 is the itemization count. 2,387 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $104 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $2,789 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 27 itemizations per donor record. Sixty-three thousand-plus lines from 2,387 donor records is a repeat-giving stream. Union PAC payroll deductions, monthly conduit gifts, and multi-committee giving can all generate that shape.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $104 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

This guide does not assign percentages to those channels because none are in the packet. Mean dollars per line sit toward the modest side among occupation strings near this dollar band.

Self-reported, not an FAA list

Pilot, airline pilot, captain, and commercial pilot are different strings if committees typed them that way. A donor who files PILOT in one cycle and AIRLINE PILOT in another is split across occupation pages.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals AIRLINE PILOT after indexing. PILOT, CAPTAIN, and COMMERCIAL PILOT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to AIRLINE PILOT.

What 2,387 donor records can and cannot show

2,387 donor records used AIRLINE PILOT on at least one matching itemization. FEC.gov does not cross-check occupation against airman certificates. Retired pilots, cargo pilots, and regional-airline pilots may all use this phrase—or a different one.

A person who listed AIRLINE PILOT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Occupation versus air-transport industry pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An airline manager who is not a pilot will not appear here unless the occupation text says AIRLINE PILOT. Industry pages group air-transportation employers separately. Adding $6,657,691 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the AIRLINE PILOT occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $6,657,691.

How to cite the airline pilot key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: AIRLINE PILOT itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,657,691 on 63,790 contributions from 2,387 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Occupation is a disclosure facet, not a claim about anyone’s employer or union status.

Treating AIRLINE PILOT as a high-line occupation string

AIRLINE PILOT in this extract is $6,657,691 on 63,790 itemizations from 2,387 donor records, or $6.7 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. The FAA can list who may fly. FEC itemizations list whoever typed AIRLINE PILOT. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $104 per contribution and about $2,789 per donor record, with roughly 27 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. PILOT, CAPTAIN, and COMMERCIAL PILOT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to AIRLINE PILOT. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $6,657,691. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals AIRLINE PILOT, dollars equal $6,657,691, contributions equal 63,790, donors equal 2,387. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($6.7 million) are the same headline amount as $6,657,691, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of AIRLINE PILOT in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have airline pilot donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list AIRLINE PILOT sum to $6,657,691 across 63,790 contributions and 2,387 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why are there 63,790 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 2,387 donor records add rows. About 27 lines per record and about $104 per contribution are means on $6,657,691, not a payroll-deduction proof. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does this include all commercial pilots?

No. Only rows whose occupation field equals AIRLINE PILOT. Captain and other aviation titles stay on their own pages. This key is $6,657,691, 63,790 lines, and 2,387 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where do I see individual receipts?

Open the AIRLINE PILOT occupation page, then verify on FEC.gov. Given 63,790 lines, filtering on that table matters more than this summary. The occupation total is $6,657,691. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.