Safety Engineering
360 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 93 of them, and the median of those is $125,429.
Safety Engineering, May 2026
- 360
- Employees
- 93
- Salary published
- 25.8% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 267
- Salary withheld
- 74.2%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 0
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $125,429
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $99,847 and a tenth over $187,093.
Safety 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 | 505 | 35.6% |
| September 2016 | 506 | 36.0% |
| September 2017 | 487 | 35.5% |
| September 2018 | 465 | 34.8% |
| September 2019 | 462 | 32.5% |
| September 2020 | 452 | 34.1% |
| September 2021 | 452 | 31.0% |
| September 2022 | 449 | 31.4% |
| September 2023 | 443 | 31.6% |
| September 2024 | 432 | 29.6% |
| September 2025 | 411 | 28.0% |
| May 2026 | 360 | 25.8% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 358 | 25.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 355 | 25.9% |
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
Data retrieved