A system and method for removing bias from a frequency estimate. A simulation is used to predict, for various values of the signal to noise ratio, a bias in a raw frequency estimate produced by a frequency estimation algorithm. A straight line is fit to simulated frequency offset estimates as a function of true frequency offset, and the reciprocal of the slope of the line is stored, as a multiplicative bias removal term, in a lookup table, for the simulated signal to noise ratio. In operation, the raw frequency estimate is multiplied by a multiplicative bias removal term, obtained from the lookup table, to form a corrected frequency offset estimate.