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Telephone Operating

The median salary in the Telephone Operating series stood at $44,724 across the 336 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.

349 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 96.3% of them whose salary it publishes.

Telephone Operating, August 2026

349
Employees
336
Salary published
96.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
11
Salary withheld
3.2%, under OPM's own release policy.
2
Neither withheld nor averaged
Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
$44,724
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $39,258 and a tenth over $52,957.

Telephone Operating, from September 2015 to August 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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Telephone Operating: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201554988.5%
September 201652291.2%
September 201750794.5%
September 201847994.8%
September 201946594.0%
September 202045195.1%
September 202142894.6%
September 202241394.4%
September 202339495.2%
September 202438795.6%
September 202536595.6%
June 2026 (provisional)35796.6%
July 2026 (provisional)34996.6%
August 202634996.3%

How the federal salary figures are made

Sources

Compiled automatically from OPM Federal Workforce Data — Federal Employment Raw Data (EHRI Status) by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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