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Budget Analysis
The Budget Analysis series had 12,832 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 5,827 of them, 45.4%, and the median of those is $131,102: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Budget Analysis, August 2026
- 12,832
- Employees
- 5,827
- Salary published
- 45.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 6,987
- Salary withheld
- 54.4%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 18
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $131,102
- 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 $187,093.
Budget Analysis, 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 | 13,236 | 46.0% |
| September 2016 | 13,278 | 46.6% |
| September 2017 | 13,186 | 46.7% |
| September 2018 | 13,309 | 45.2% |
| September 2019 | 13,540 | 45.1% |
| September 2020 | 13,935 | 45.8% |
| September 2021 | 14,358 | 46.3% |
| September 2022 | 14,466 | 47.3% |
| September 2023 | 15,094 | 48.2% |
| September 2024 | 15,517 | 48.3% |
| September 2025 | 14,509 | 47.0% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 13,014 | 44.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 12,829 | 45.3% |
| August 2026 | 12,832 | 45.4% |
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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