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Freight Rate

The Freight Rate series had 155 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.

The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 13 of them, 8.4%, and the median of those is $70,994: a figure about fewer than half of them.

Freight Rate, August 2026

155
Employees
13
Salary published
8.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
142
Salary withheld
91.6%, 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.
$70,994
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $55,506 and a tenth over $80,012.

Freight Rate, 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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Freight Rate: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201521712.9%
September 201620110.4%
September 20171958.7%
September 20181919.9%
September 201920110.0%
September 202020711.1%
September 202119911.6%
September 202218211.0%
September 20231898.5%
September 20241947.7%
September 20251807.2%
June 2026 (provisional)1557.7%
July 2026 (provisional)1557.7%
August 20261558.4%

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

Data retrieved