Pilot occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Pilot as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation PILOT and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $541,519, 872 contributions, and 477 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Airline pilot, commercial pilot, captain, and aviator are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an FAA certificate census, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline PAC. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Pilot donations at /occupations/pilot/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $541,519 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Pilot in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $541,519. Airline versus cargo versus corporate versus military flying is unpublished for Pilot in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale aviation-title cell inside a large all-cycle Pilot roll.

PILOT as typed, not an FAA extract

$11.0 million ($11,039,454) belongs to the exact string PILOT across harvested cycles. It is not an FAA certificate census, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline PAC. People who wrote nearby wording — airline pilot, commercial pilot, captain, and aviator — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 4.9% of that title bucket ($541,519 of $11,039,454). Share of PILOT is not share of all 2008 receipts. The remainder, $10,497,935, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $541,519. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $11,039,454. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Pilot donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $541,519.

477 pilot donors and 872 receipts in 2008

477 donors and 872 receipts — about 1.8 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $621; mean per donor about $1,135. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale aviation-title cell inside a large all-cycle Pilot roll. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 872 is a line count, not 477 one-time gifts. Airline versus cargo versus corporate versus military flying is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by PILOT. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $541,519. Captain can mean an airline rank or a military rank. It is not automatically this PILOT join.

Aviation title versus airline PACs

Cite $541,519 as Pilot in 2008. Cite $11,039,454 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add airline and pilot-union PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $541,519 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 4.9%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode PILOT into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Pilot money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation PILOT, election cycle 2008, $541,519 in itemized individual contributions, 872 receipts, and 477 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $621 per line and $1,135 per donor in the cell. If the live Pilot donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 872 as unique workers in the trade named by PILOT.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Pilot donations rolls every cycle into one PILOT running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Pilot × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 872 receipts and $541,519. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Airline Pilot as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $10,497,935 outside 2008. Most of the $11,039,454 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Captain can mean an airline rank or a military rank. It is not automatically this PILOT join. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 1.8. That ratio is 872 divided by 477, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Pilot filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Pilot itemized $541,519 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 872 receipts and 477 donors. That is 4.9% of $11,039,454 under PILOT. Airline pilot, commercial pilot, captain, and aviator are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include airline or ALPA PACs?

No. $541,519 is individual contributions tagged Pilot in 2008. Airline and pilot-union PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $541,519 would blend FEC tables. See Pilot donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Pilot in 2008 is $541,519 on 872 receipts from 477 donors.

Are Pilot labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PILOT. Airline pilot, commercial pilot, captain, and aviator are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an FAA certificate census, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline PAC. Cite $541,519 for this title in 2008 on 872 receipts from 477 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Pilot donations ($11.0 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $541,519 from 872 receipts and 477 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Pilot in 2008.