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Second Cook

The Second Cook series had 132 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.

The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 25 of them, 18.9%, and the median of those is $47,204: a figure about fewer than half of them.

Second Cook, August 2026

132
Employees
25
Salary published
18.9% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
107
Salary withheld
81.1%, 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.
$47,204
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $47,204 and a tenth over $50,519.

Second 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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Second Cook: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201512416.9%
September 201612617.5%
September 201712820.3%
September 201811817.8%
September 201912417.7%
September 202012016.7%
September 202111619.8%
September 202212316.3%
September 202312123.1%
September 202413222.0%
September 202512112.4%
June 2026 (provisional)12617.5%
July 2026 (provisional)12716.5%
August 202613218.9%

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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