Dispatching
1,446 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 381 of them, and the median of those is $57,080.
Dispatching, May 2026
- 1,446
- Employees
- 381
- Salary published
- 26.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 1,065
- Salary withheld
- 73.7%, 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.
- $57,080
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $40,736 and a tenth over $75,525.
Dispatching, 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 | 1,416 | 23.7% |
| September 2016 | 1,445 | 24.2% |
| September 2017 | 1,423 | 24.7% |
| September 2018 | 1,459 | 24.7% |
| September 2019 | 1,518 | 22.8% |
| September 2020 | 1,626 | 25.1% |
| September 2021 | 1,616 | 25.4% |
| September 2022 | 1,574 | 25.7% |
| September 2023 | 1,543 | 25.7% |
| September 2024 | 1,569 | 25.7% |
| September 2025 | 1,469 | 26.1% |
| May 2026 | 1,446 | 26.3% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 1,432 | 26.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 1,446 | 26.8% |
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
Data retrieved