Auditing
9,425 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 3,796 of them, and the median of those is $142,084.
Auditing, May 2026
- 9,425
- Employees
- 3,796
- Salary published
- 40.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 5,618
- Salary withheld
- 59.6%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 11
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $142,084
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $104,120 and a tenth over $187,093.
Auditing, 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 | 12,236 | 36.9% |
| September 2016 | 12,052 | 38.1% |
| September 2017 | 12,004 | 37.4% |
| September 2018 | 11,935 | 36.7% |
| September 2019 | 11,644 | 36.8% |
| September 2020 | 11,481 | 37.6% |
| September 2021 | 11,275 | 39.1% |
| September 2022 | 11,106 | 39.8% |
| September 2023 | 11,333 | 41.2% |
| September 2024 | 11,325 | 41.6% |
| September 2025 | 10,753 | 40.7% |
| May 2026 | 9,425 | 40.3% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 9,375 | 40.3% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 9,422 | 40.2% |
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
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
Data retrieved