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General Telecommunications

The General Telecommunications series had 225 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.

The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 26 of them, 11.6%, and the median of those is $57,736: a figure about fewer than half of them.

General Telecommunications, August 2026

225
Employees
26
Salary published
11.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
199
Salary withheld
88.4%, 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.
$57,736
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $54,406 and a tenth over $122,899.

General 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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General Telecommunications: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201514337.8%
September 201610539.0%
September 201710835.2%
September 20189036.7%
September 201916923.1%
September 202025916.2%
September 202131516.2%
September 202232211.5%
September 202328211.3%
September 202426413.6%
September 202524314.0%
June 2026 (provisional)21813.8%
July 2026 (provisional)22112.7%
August 202622511.6%

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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