United Airlines and the 2008 FEC cycle

The United Airlines × 2008 join

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation text as grouped strings and election cycles as two-year tags. Where United Airlines meets 2008, the itemized individual total is $214,503. That is 355 contributions from 182 donors. The figure is not a corporate treasury transfer and does not identify who received the money. Cite FEC.gov.

The united airlines hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub restates a one-key total. This tie keeps both keys. United Airlines is airline employer text. UNITED AIR LINES, UAL, UNITED CONTINENTAL, and CONTINENTAL AIRLINES are other keys. Rows that used those other strings are not added into $214,503.

A share of 2.9% versus $7,420,373 is a scale check, not a ranking of cycles and not evidence of a coordinated program. The remaining 97.1% ($7,205,870) lives on other even-year pages for the same string. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain the dollar cell.

Scale: $214,503 versus $7,420,373

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $7,420,373. The 2008 slice of $214,503 is about 2.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.1% ($7,205,870). Treating 2008 as the entire United Airlines FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $7,420,373 as the denominator for the 2.9% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $7,420,373. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

Gift count, donor count, and $214,503

Dividing $214,503 by 355 contributions yields about $604 per itemized gift. Dividing by 182 donors yields about $1,179 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim.

182 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for United Airlines 2008 holds the rows.

The two-year 2008 window

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. United Airlines is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and United Airlines to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $214,503 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 355 contributions, the 182 unique donors, and the 2.9% share of $7,420,373.

Text match is not a payroll file

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $214,503. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is airline employer text, not a United PAC, not UAL as a ticker spelling, and not a federal aviation-contract total.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 182 donors, and 355 contributions. UNITED AIR LINES, UAL, UNITED CONTINENTAL, and CONTINENTAL AIRLINES are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

A citation that keeps both keys

Start with $214,503, then United Airlines 2008 for rows, then United Airlines or 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: UNITED AIRLINES, 2008, $214,503, 355 contributions, 182 donors, 2.9% of $7,420,373, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 2.9% share, the 182-donor count, and the $604 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 355 itemized contributions totaling $214,503 average about $604 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did United Airlines donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $214,503 in itemized individual contributions for the United Airlines grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 355 contributions and 182 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $7,420,373 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of United Airlines FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $7,420,373. The 2008 cell of $214,503 is about 2.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.1% ($7,205,870) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed United Airlines workers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string UNITED AIRLINES. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $214,503 from 182 donors across 355 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the United Airlines 2008 join?

Open United Airlines 2008 for the cycle overlay, United Airlines for the grouping hub, and 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $214,503, 355 contributions, and 182 donors.