AIRLINE PILOT

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.

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.