Fire Protection Engineering
227 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 94 of them, and the median of those is $158,338.
Fire Protection Engineering, May 2026
- 227
- Employees
- 94
- Salary published
- 41.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 133
- Salary withheld
- 58.6%, 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.
- $158,338
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $129,013 and a tenth over $188,573.
Fire Protection 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 | 236 | 57.2% |
| September 2016 | 248 | 56.0% |
| September 2017 | 251 | 55.8% |
| September 2018 | 245 | 51.0% |
| September 2019 | 257 | 46.7% |
| September 2020 | 254 | 47.6% |
| September 2021 | 279 | 46.2% |
| September 2022 | 281 | 44.5% |
| September 2023 | 290 | 46.9% |
| September 2024 | 292 | 46.2% |
| September 2025 | 267 | 44.9% |
| May 2026 | 227 | 41.4% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 219 | 41.6% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 224 | 39.7% |
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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