Record · Occupation
Chief Cook
The Chief Cook series had 55 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 12 of them, 21.8%, and the median of those is $58,244: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Chief Cook, August 2026
- 55
- Employees
- 12
- Salary published
- 21.8% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 43
- Salary withheld
- 78.2%, 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.
- $58,244
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $58,244 and a tenth over $58,244.
Chief Cook, 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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| Month | Employees | Salary published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | 53 | 9.4% |
| September 2016 | 53 | 13.2% |
| September 2017 | 48 | 14.6% |
| September 2018 | 46 | 15.2% |
| September 2019 | 39 | 10.3% |
| September 2020 | 43 | 11.6% |
| September 2021 | 47 | 8.5% |
| September 2022 | 45 | 17.8% |
| September 2023 | 36 | 11.1% |
| September 2024 | 42 | 19.0% |
| September 2025 | 39 | 15.4% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 55 | 18.2% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 56 | 21.4% |
| August 2026 | 55 | 21.8% |
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 October 9, 2026
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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