Materials Engineering
1,152 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 387 of them, and the median of those is $157,188.
Materials Engineering, May 2026
- 1,152
- Employees
- 387
- Salary published
- 33.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 765
- Salary withheld
- 66.4%, 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.
- $157,188
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $110,802 and a tenth over $197,200.
Materials 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 | 1,332 | 36.8% |
| September 2016 | 1,335 | 35.7% |
| September 2017 | 1,358 | 35.9% |
| September 2018 | 1,396 | 35.4% |
| September 2019 | 1,448 | 34.7% |
| September 2020 | 1,441 | 34.9% |
| September 2021 | 1,401 | 35.5% |
| September 2022 | 1,363 | 35.2% |
| September 2023 | 1,314 | 35.2% |
| September 2024 | 1,299 | 35.0% |
| September 2025 | 1,259 | 33.7% |
| May 2026 | 1,152 | 33.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 1,154 | 33.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 1,165 | 34.3% |
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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