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Explosives Safety
The Explosives Safety series had 432 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 9 of them, 2.1%, and the median of those is $142,084: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Explosives Safety, August 2026
- 432
- Employees
- 9
- Salary published
- 2.1% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 423
- Salary withheld
- 97.9%, 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.
- $142,084
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $114,221 and a tenth over $179,755.
Explosives Safety, 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 | 189 | 1.1% |
| September 2016 | 243 | 0.8% |
| September 2017 | 254 | 1.2% |
| September 2018 | 295 | 1.0% |
| September 2019 | 331 | 0.9% |
| September 2020 | 356 | 1.1% |
| September 2021 | 381 | 1.3% |
| September 2022 | 389 | 1.5% |
| September 2023 | 398 | 1.5% |
| September 2024 | 442 | 1.1% |
| September 2025 | 460 | 1.7% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 435 | 1.6% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 437 | 2.1% |
| August 2026 | 432 | 2.1% |
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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