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Navigational Information

The median salary in the Navigational Information series stood at $150,726 across the 392 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.

403 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 97.3% of them whose salary it publishes.

Navigational Information, August 2026

403
Employees
392
Salary published
97.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
11
Salary withheld
2.7%, 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.
$150,726
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $109,985 and a tenth over $183,255.

Navigational Information, 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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Navigational Information: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201528896.2%
September 201642997.2%
September 201744197.5%
September 201843397.7%
September 201942997.7%
September 202048397.9%
September 202148898.2%
September 202249198.2%
September 202350597.6%
September 202450697.8%
September 202549597.8%
June 2026 (provisional)40497.5%
July 2026 (provisional)40397.5%
August 202640397.3%

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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