Guide
749 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 747 of them, and the median of those is $46,060.
Guide, May 2026
- 749
- Employees
- 747
- Salary published
- 99.7% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 1
- Salary withheld
- 0.1%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 1
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $46,060
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $40,736 and a tenth over $54,113.
Guide, 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 | 1,043 | 99.6% |
| September 2016 | 1,058 | 99.5% |
| September 2017 | 962 | 99.8% |
| September 2018 | 997 | 99.8% |
| September 2019 | 1,018 | 99.8% |
| September 2020 | 966 | 99.8% |
| September 2021 | 876 | 99.8% |
| September 2022 | 889 | 99.8% |
| September 2023 | 905 | 99.8% |
| September 2024 | 786 | 99.9% |
| September 2025 | 796 | 99.9% |
| May 2026 | 749 | 99.7% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 769 | 99.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 782 | 99.7% |
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
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