General Engineering
29,730 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 9,841 of them, and the median of those is $158,523.
General Engineering, May 2026
- 29,730
- Employees
- 9,841
- Salary published
- 33.1% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 19,832
- Salary withheld
- 66.7%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 57
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $158,523
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $116,384 and a tenth over $197,200.
General Engineering, 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 | 26,054 | 37.5% |
| September 2016 | 26,627 | 36.5% |
| September 2017 | 26,732 | 35.9% |
| September 2018 | 27,201 | 32.9% |
| September 2019 | 28,836 | 31.7% |
| September 2020 | 30,202 | 32.3% |
| September 2021 | 31,150 | 32.9% |
| September 2022 | 31,576 | 34.4% |
| September 2023 | 32,996 | 35.0% |
| September 2024 | 34,406 | 35.2% |
| September 2025 | 33,239 | 34.5% |
| May 2026 | 29,730 | 33.1% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 29,666 | 33.1% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 29,759 | 33.3% |
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
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