Record · Occupation
Forestry Technician
The median salary in the Forestry Technician series stood at $60,217 across the 10,549 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.
10,609 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 99.4% of them whose salary it publishes.
Forestry Technician, August 2026
- 10,609
- Employees
- 10,549
- Salary published
- 99.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 57
- Salary withheld
- 0.5%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 3
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $60,217
- 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 $84,963.
Forestry Technician, 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 | 16,868 | 99.3% |
| September 2016 | 16,817 | 99.4% |
| September 2017 | 15,889 | 99.4% |
| September 2018 | 15,631 | 99.4% |
| September 2019 | 16,980 | 99.4% |
| September 2020 | 18,038 | 99.4% |
| September 2021 | 17,420 | 99.4% |
| September 2022 | 16,714 | 99.4% |
| September 2023 | 17,070 | 99.5% |
| September 2024 | 16,612 | 99.5% |
| September 2025 | 15,353 | 99.5% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 11,090 | 99.4% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 10,909 | 99.4% |
| August 2026 | 10,609 | 99.4% |
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 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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