Record · Occupation
Telecommunications
The Telecommunications series had 3,899 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 901 of them, 23.1%, and the median of those is $129,851: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Telecommunications, August 2026
- 3,899
- Employees
- 901
- Salary published
- 23.1% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 2,927
- Salary withheld
- 75.1%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 71
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $129,851
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $87,488 and a tenth over $177,497.
Telecommunications, 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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| Month | Employees | Salary published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | 5,688 | 30.4% |
| September 2016 | 5,649 | 29.9% |
| September 2017 | 5,522 | 28.4% |
| September 2018 | 5,333 | 27.4% |
| September 2019 | 5,356 | 26.8% |
| September 2020 | 5,180 | 24.9% |
| September 2021 | 5,157 | 26.0% |
| September 2022 | 4,949 | 27.1% |
| September 2023 | 4,786 | 26.6% |
| September 2024 | 4,642 | 24.8% |
| September 2025 | 4,391 | 24.1% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 3,924 | 23.0% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 3,903 | 23.2% |
| August 2026 | 3,899 | 23.1% |
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 October 9, 2026
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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