Pilot donations in Tennessee on FEC.gov

Pilot × Tennessee

PILOT plus donor state TN equals $300,306. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the contributor state was Tennessee. Airline Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Captain, and Aviator are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an FAA airman certificate file, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline seniority list. Other state amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $10,739,148. Tennessee’s Pilot join uses the short PILOT string, not Airline Pilot; 94 Tennessee keys are not an FAA airman extract for Tennessee.

Parent hubs: Pilot donations and Tennessee campaign finance. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-state cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $300,306 into another state or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

PILOT as typed, not a job census

$11,039,454 belongs to the exact string PILOT nationwide. It is not an FAA airman certificate file, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline seniority list. People who wrote nearby wording — Airline Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Captain, and Aviator — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The Tennessee slice is 2.7% of that title bucket. Share of PILOT is not share of all Tennessee receipts.

2,073 Pilot receipts coded to TN

94 donors and 2,073 receipts — about 22.1 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $145; mean per donor about $3,195. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 2,073 is a line count, not 94 one-time gifts. PILOT is the short occupation string. Airline Pilot is a different key when those two words appear. Certificate class and employer are unpublished. 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 $300,306.

Tennessee as a donor-state code next to Pilot

Donor state TN is the contributor’s coded state on the itemized record, not a statement that the recipient is a Tennessee candidate or that the work was done in Tennessee. Inside that filter, this occupation cell is $300,306 from 2,073 contributions and 94 donors. The occupation’s national book remains $11,039,454.

The Tennessee hub still includes every other occupation. Occupation pages for Pilot still include every other state. Only this join isolates Pilot × Tennessee. Independent expenditures are omitted from $300,306. Adjacent pages for Tennessee campaign finance, Pilot donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts.

Self-reported Pilot versus committee filings

Cite $300,306 as Pilot in Tennessee. Cite $11,039,454 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add a professional association’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $300,306 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s state cell rather than rescale 2.7%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state. 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 Tennessee total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to read Pilot money in Tennessee

This join does not recode PILOT into an FAA airman certificate file, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline seniority list. PILOT is the short occupation string. Airline Pilot is a different key when those two words appear. Certificate class and employer are unpublished. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried PILOT are outside $300,306. Independent expenditures are outside $300,306. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Pilot, donor state Tennessee (TN), $300,306 itemized, 2,073 contributions, 94 donors, 2.7% of $11,039,454 from 2,899 national donors. PILOT is the short occupation string. Airline Pilot is a different key when those two words appear. Certificate class and employer are unpublished. Airline Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Captain, and Aviator stay on other occupation pages. The Tennessee campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Open /occupations/pilot/ (Pilot donations) for the occupation hub, /states/TN/ (Tennessee campaign finance) for the state hub, /occupations/ (All occupations) for neighboring titles, and /ties/ (All FEC ties) for other occupation-state joins.

Questions

How much did Pilot filers in Tennessee donate?

Filers who listed Pilot and Tennessee itemized $300,306 in FEC individual contributions, from 2,073 receipts and 94 donors. That is 2.7% 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 count a professional association’s PAC spending?

No. $300,306 is individual contributions tagged Pilot and Tennessee. Association committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $300,306 would blend FEC tables. See Pilot donations or Tennessee campaign finance for committee names. The join is $300,306 on 2,073 receipts from 94 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 airman certificate file, an ALPA membership roll, or an airline seniority list. Cite $300,306 for this title in Tennessee on 2,073 receipts from 94 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Pilot donations ($11,039,454 for the string) and Tennessee campaign finance. The overlap is $300,306 from 2,073 receipts and 94 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-state cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Pilot in Tennessee.