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Architecture
The Architecture series had 1,631 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 530 of them, 32.5%, and the median of those is $140,584: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Architecture, August 2026
- 1,631
- Employees
- 530
- Salary published
- 32.5% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 1,100
- Salary withheld
- 67.4%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 1
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $140,584
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $105,829 and a tenth over $187,093.
Architecture, from September 2015 to August 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 | 1,810 | 45.7% |
| September 2016 | 1,809 | 44.8% |
| September 2017 | 1,778 | 44.9% |
| September 2018 | 1,768 | 43.1% |
| September 2019 | 1,796 | 41.1% |
| September 2020 | 1,888 | 40.5% |
| September 2021 | 1,955 | 39.0% |
| September 2022 | 1,954 | 38.1% |
| September 2023 | 1,986 | 37.0% |
| September 2024 | 2,061 | 36.4% |
| September 2025 | 1,977 | 35.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 1,653 | 32.4% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 1,642 | 32.3% |
| August 2026 | 1,631 | 32.5% |
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 October 9, 2026
Compiled automatically from OPM Federal Workforce Data — Federal Employment Raw Data (EHRI Status) by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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