Data Transcriber
20 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 19 of them, and the median of those is $44,801.
Data Transcriber, May 2026
- 20
- Employees
- 19
- Salary published
- 95.0% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 1
- Salary withheld
- 5.0%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 0
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $44,801
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $41,067 and a tenth over $48,535.
Data Transcriber, from September 2015 to July 2026
A point a year and the most recent months, which is what the file this page reads keeps. The share with a published salary is beside each, because a change in the median can be a change in whose pay is withheld. A month OPM flags as incomplete is marked provisional.
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| Month | Employees | Salary published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | 705 | 99.3% |
| September 2016 | 954 | 99.5% |
| September 2017 | 917 | 99.6% |
| September 2018 | 977 | 99.6% |
| September 2019 | 1,103 | 99.5% |
| September 2020 | 1,939 | 99.9% |
| September 2021 | 426 | 100.0% |
| September 2022 | 210 | 100.0% |
| September 2023 | 63 | 98.4% |
| September 2024 | 39 | 97.4% |
| September 2025 | 30 | 96.7% |
| May 2026 | 20 | 95.0% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 7 | 85.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 7 | 85.7% |
How the federal salary figures are made
Sources
- OPM Federal Workforce Data — Federal Employment Raw Data (EHRI Status) — U.S. Office of Personnel Management · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 26, 2026
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