What pilot-occupation donors give in federal races

High schedule volume, a $149 mean gift

$11,039,454, 73,932 itemizations, and 2,899 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $149. Mean dollars per donor record are about $3,808. Repeat giving is about 26 itemizations per donor record.

73,932 lines from 2,899 records is a high-repeat aviation-title stack. The $149 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume, not a typical hourly rate redirected to politics.

The packet has no airline-versus-corporate split, no certificate type, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

PILOT is not an ATP census

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds an airline transport pilot certificate. Military, corporate, drone, and maritime uses of the word can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $11,039,454, 73,932 contributions, and 2,899 donors. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER and other aviation strings remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and dual titles

2,899 donor records used PILOT on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed PILOT on some gifts and RETIRED on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the one-word title.

Industry pages group airlines, not this title

Industry pages group employers. A pilot at a major carrier and a corporate pilot share this occupation string if they typed PILOT. Adding $11,039,454 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the PILOT occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to other aviation titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals PILOT, dollars equal $11,039,454, contributions equal 73,932, donors equal 2,899, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the contribution count with the dollars so the high-repeat mean is visible.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $11,039,454, 73,932 contributions, and 2,899 donors. Neighboring aviation titles stay on their own pages unless the extract merged them into PILOT.

Reading PILOT as an aviation one-word key

PILOT in this extract is $11,039,454 on 73,932 itemizations from 2,899 donor records, or $11.0 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. People who type captain, aviator, or retired may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact PILOT key is in $11,039,454.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $149 per contribution and about $3,808 per donor record, with roughly 26 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining PILOT with neighboring aviation strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 2,899 donor records on 73,932 lines is a high-repeat title pool, not an FAA certificate census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $11,039,454. A person who listed PILOT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PILOT, dollars equal $11,039,454, contributions equal 73,932, donors equal 2,899. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live PILOT occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($11.0 million) are the same headline amount as $11,039,454, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 73,932 contributions and 2,899 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the high-repeat aviation-title pattern rather than an FAA census. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a certificate class. A citation that stays inside the packet names PILOT, $11,039,454, 73,932, and 2,899 together.

Questions

How much have pilot-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The PILOT occupation string is attached to $11,039,454 across 73,932 contributions and 2,899 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of licensed pilots. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does PILOT include airline and corporate pilots?

The string matches whatever donors typed. The FEC does not split certificate class or employer. This page covers PILOT: $11,039,454, 73,932 contributions, and 2,899 donors. Check the occupations index for neighboring aviation strings. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average pilot contribution?

Dividing $11,039,454 by 73,932 itemizations yields about $149 per contribution. Dividing by 2,899 donors yields about $3,808 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 26 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing pilot prove the donor holds an FAA certificate?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify certificates or employer. Quote 73,932 contributions and 2,899 donor records with the $11,039,454 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.