Program Management
15,956 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 7,560 of them, and the median of those is $186,207.
Program Management, May 2026
- 15,956
- Employees
- 7,560
- Salary published
- 47.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 8,021
- Salary withheld
- 50.3%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 375
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $186,207
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $125,845 and a tenth over $224,297.
Program Management, 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 | 15,421 | 62.5% |
| September 2016 | 15,584 | 62.2% |
| September 2017 | 15,616 | 60.9% |
| September 2018 | 16,123 | 58.5% |
| September 2019 | 16,539 | 56.0% |
| September 2020 | 17,262 | 55.0% |
| September 2021 | 17,383 | 53.8% |
| September 2022 | 17,672 | 54.0% |
| September 2023 | 18,768 | 52.9% |
| September 2024 | 19,475 | 53.5% |
| September 2025 | 18,487 | 51.5% |
| May 2026 | 15,956 | 47.4% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 15,984 | 47.3% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 15,946 | 47.4% |
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