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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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Cash Processing: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 20151,00548.0%
September 201699047.4%
September 201795846.3%
September 201895446.4%
September 201997045.6%
September 202099946.9%
September 202187641.6%
September 202283038.6%
September 202381237.4%
September 202478634.1%
September 202561739.5%
May 202667030.6%
June 2026 (provisional)1,05419.5%
July 2026 (provisional)66430.3%

How the federal salary figures are made

Sources

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