Chaplain
1,231 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 1,094 of them, and the median of those is $107,057.
Chaplain, May 2026
- 1,231
- Employees
- 1,094
- Salary published
- 88.9% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 131
- Salary withheld
- 10.6%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 6
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $107,057
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $77,168 and a tenth over $131,273.
Chaplain, 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 | 1,253 | 88.8% |
| September 2016 | 1,237 | 89.3% |
| September 2017 | 1,252 | 89.3% |
| September 2018 | 1,238 | 88.4% |
| September 2019 | 1,247 | 87.4% |
| September 2020 | 1,242 | 89.9% |
| September 2021 | 1,267 | 89.5% |
| September 2022 | 1,277 | 90.3% |
| September 2023 | 1,313 | 90.1% |
| September 2024 | 1,339 | 88.9% |
| September 2025 | 1,218 | 90.3% |
| May 2026 | 1,231 | 88.9% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 1,231 | 89.0% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 1,231 | 89.4% |
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