Engineering Technical
14,478 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 2,762 of them, and the median of those is $89,472.
Engineering Technical, May 2026
- 14,478
- Employees
- 2,762
- Salary published
- 19.1% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 11,704
- Salary withheld
- 80.8%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 12
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $89,472
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $65,855 and a tenth over $125,906.
Engineering Technical, 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 | 14,232 | 25.3% |
| September 2016 | 14,444 | 24.8% |
| September 2017 | 14,287 | 24.5% |
| September 2018 | 14,395 | 23.2% |
| September 2019 | 14,862 | 22.1% |
| September 2020 | 15,494 | 21.7% |
| September 2021 | 15,784 | 21.2% |
| September 2022 | 15,665 | 20.7% |
| September 2023 | 16,050 | 19.9% |
| September 2024 | 16,276 | 19.9% |
| September 2025 | 15,971 | 19.8% |
| May 2026 | 14,478 | 19.1% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 14,473 | 19.1% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 14,518 | 19.6% |
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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