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The median salary in the Physiology series stood at $124,177 across the 164 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.

246 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 66.7% of them whose salary it publishes.

Physiology, August 2026

246
Employees
164
Salary published
66.7% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
75
Salary withheld
30.5%, under OPM's own release policy.
7
Neither withheld nor averaged
Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
$124,177
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $82,148 and a tenth over $197,200.

Physiology, 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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Physiology: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201536065.6%
September 201634964.8%
September 201733265.7%
September 201831962.4%
September 201931561.9%
September 202032364.1%
September 202132264.3%
September 202232065.0%
September 202333567.2%
September 202432467.6%
September 202528568.4%
June 2026 (provisional)24967.5%
July 2026 (provisional)24866.5%
August 202624666.7%

How the federal salary figures are made

Sources

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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