Pilot political contributions from Colorado

Pilot-coded contributions from Colorado addresses

Occupation PILOT and donor state CO produce $428,484, 4,201 contributions, and 138 donors. The occupation hub is $11,039,454, 73,932 contributions, and 2,899 donors. Colorado’s dollar share is about 3.9%; contribution share about 5.7% (4,201 of 73,932); donor share about 4.8% (138 of 2,899). This page is the intersection of those two FEC.gov fields, not a restatement of the Pilot hub and not a restatement of all Colorado occupations.

AIRLINE PILOT, AVIATOR, and CAPTAIN, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack PILOT with those strings into a single Colorado professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs. The FEC file stores the occupation exactly as entered. A longer or shorter variant is a different key.

138 Colorado donors produced 4,201 contributions, about 30.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 25.5 rows per donor nationally (73,932 contributions from 2,899 donors). Line volume in Colorado is the distinctive feature of this cell: 5.7% of national PILOT contributions against a 3.9% dollar share. The arithmetic mean gift in this Colorado cell is about $102, against about $149 nationwide. A high row count can be many small itemized gifts from the same people across cycles.

PILOT versus AIRLINE PILOT and CAPTAIN

PILOT is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a license, an employer, or a payroll title. The $11,039,454 national total is PILOT only. 2,899 donors produced 73,932 contributions in that occupation bucket. PILOT is a short aviation self-description, not an FAA airman certificate extract. Nearby labels AIRLINE PILOT, AVIATOR, and CAPTAIN remain outside this occupation total even when one person has used more than one string.

This page does not split those 73,932 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Colorado (CO). 73,932 national contributions make PILOT a published occupation bucket; this tie locates the Colorado overlap. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts are omitted. Committee identifiers on the itemized line are the recipient keys in the underlying file, but this packet does not publish a recipient breakdown.

Colorado as the state on the itemized record

138 Colorado donors produced 4,201 contributions totaling $428,484. Donor state CO is the address on the record, not proof of a Colorado license, and not a limit to Colorado candidates. CO is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received the $428,484. Out-of-state committees can receive itemized gifts from CO-coded donors.

The Colorado campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CO. This join is only PILOT. The Pilot occupation hub without Colorado still holds about 96.1% of the $11,039,454 (remainder $10,610,970). Colorado’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CO. PILOT is only this filter. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this page does not claim donations funded awards.

Certificate class and employer airline are not in the join

A 3.9% dollar share in Colorado does not rank the state as more or less political than others. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation is not causation. This page does not name donors, does not invent committees, and does not treat 138 unique donors as an FAA airman certificate extract. PILOT is not interchangeable with AIRLINE PILOT, AVIATOR, and CAPTAIN.

Quote $428,484, 4,201 contributions, and 138 donors for Pilot in Colorado, against $11,039,454 nationwide, source FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts stay outside the itemized aggregate. Cycle stacking can raise line counts without raising unique people. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Keep both sides of the join—Pilot and Colorado—whenever the dollars are quoted.

Colorado Pilot dollars next to gift and donor counts

A complete claim names Pilot and Colorado (CO), then $428,484, 4,201 contributions, 138 donors, and 3.9% of $11,039,454, source FEC.gov. Remainder outside Colorado: $10,610,970. Mean gift $102 is $428,484 divided by 4,201 lines in this state cell. Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL.

Subtract the Colorado dollars on this page from the national PILOT occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PILOT in every other state combined. That remainder ($10,610,970) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. A unique-donor count of 138 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Keeping dollars, contribution count, and donor count on the same page is the point of the join.

Aviation occupation pages and Colorado finance

Pilot donations holds the $11,039,454 national occupation total. Colorado 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. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. This tie page quotes packet facts only.

Questions

How much have Pilot donors in Colorado given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PILOT and state Colorado total $428,484, from 4,201 contributions and 138 donors. Nationwide, PILOT-coded receipts are $11,039,454 from 73,932 contributions and 2,899 donors. Colorado is about 3.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include airline pilots who wrote a longer title?

No. The FEC file does not verify licenses, employers, or headcount. Occupation is the string PILOT and state is CO. 138 donors are not an FAA airman certificate extract. AIRLINE PILOT, AVIATOR, and CAPTAIN, if stored separately, sit in other hubs. Do not add those cells to Pilot. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What share of Pilot FEC money is from Colorado?

About 3.9% of the $11,039,454 occupation total is in this Colorado join ($428,484). Colorado also accounts for about 5.7% of contributions (4,201 of 73,932) and about 4.8% of donors (138 of 2,899). Remainder outside Colorado: $10,610,970. Occupation labels are filer-entered; FEC.gov is the source for the join.

Is this an FAA airman list for Colorado?

Not as a published split. Donor state is Colorado. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $428,484 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open Colorado campaign finance for every occupation coded to CO; open Pilot donations for every state in the bucket. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins.