Air Traffic Controller political contributions from California

Air Traffic Controller and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER and donor state CA produce $2,038,605, 19,687 contributions, and 421 donors. The occupation hub is $14,802,186, 138,186 contributions, and 3,081 donors. California’s dollar share is about 13.8%; contribution share about 14.2% (19,687 of 138,186); donor share about 13.7% (421 of 3,081). Four hundred twenty-one California donors are about 13.7% of 3,081 national donors; 19,687 contributions are about 14.2% of 138,186 national rows; dollars are about 13.8% of $14,802,186.

PILOT, CONTROLLER, and FAA, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Air Traffic Controller total. Do not stack AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER with PILOT or CONTROLLER into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

421 California donors produced 19,687 contributions, about 46.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 44.9 rows per donor nationally (138,186 contributions from 3,081 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $104, against about $107 nationwide. California’s about 13.8% dollar share from 19,687 rows is a high-repeat slice of a 138,186-row three-word occupation.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER as a three-word job title

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify an FAA credential, a facility, or a union card. The three-word title on the form is the filter. The $14,802,186 national total is AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER only. 3,081 donors produced 138,186 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 138,186 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Three thousand eighty-one national donors make AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as the Air Traffic Controller state stamp

421 California donors produced 19,687 contributions totaling $2,038,605. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California tower, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,038,605.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER. The Air Traffic Controller occupation hub without California still holds about 86.2% of the $14,802,186. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER is only this filter.

What the Air Traffic Controller–California join is not

This page does not count FAA employees, merge Pilot dollars, or claim that Air Traffic Controller-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER is not PILOT even when filers meant an aviation job.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER is not an FAA staffing extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Facility names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Air Traffic Controller filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER in every other state combined. That remainder ($12,763,581) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 421 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 19,687 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,038,605 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER national total, drops a key. Four hundred twenty-one donors producing 19,687 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,038,605 headline.

Related tables

Air Traffic Controller donations holds the $14,802,186 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. California Program Manager and California Librarian cells in this slice are other occupation strings.

Questions

How much have Air Traffic Controller donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER and state California total $2,038,605, from 19,687 contributions and 421 donors. Nationwide, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER-coded receipts are $14,802,186 from 138,186 contributions and 3,081 donors. California is about 13.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these FAA employees?

The FEC file does not verify FAA employment. Occupation is AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER and state is CA. Four hundred twenty-one California donors used that pair. The 421 California donors used occupation AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER and state CA. Filers who wrote PILOT or CONTROLLER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Air Traffic Controller FEC money is from California?

About 13.8% of the $14,802,186 occupation total is in this California join ($2,038,605). California also accounts for about 14.2% of contributions (19,687 of 138,186) and about 13.7% of donors (421 of 3,081). About 13.8% of dollars from 421 of 3,081 donors and 19,687 of 138,186 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,038,605 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.