Cash Processing
670 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 205 of them, and the median of those is $55,506.
Cash Processing, May 2026
- 670
- Employees
- 205
- Salary published
- 30.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 464
- Salary withheld
- 69.3%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 1
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $55,506
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $48,436 and a tenth over $67,543.
Cash Processing, 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 | 1,005 | 48.0% |
| September 2016 | 990 | 47.4% |
| September 2017 | 958 | 46.3% |
| September 2018 | 954 | 46.4% |
| September 2019 | 970 | 45.6% |
| September 2020 | 999 | 46.9% |
| September 2021 | 876 | 41.6% |
| September 2022 | 830 | 38.6% |
| September 2023 | 812 | 37.4% |
| September 2024 | 786 | 34.1% |
| September 2025 | 617 | 39.5% |
| May 2026 | 670 | 30.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 1,054 | 19.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 664 | 30.3% |
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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