Record · Occupation
Civil Engineering
The Civil Engineering series had 10,220 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 3,429 of them, 33.6%, and the median of those is $122,345: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Civil Engineering, August 2026
- 10,220
- Employees
- 3,429
- Salary published
- 33.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 6,787
- Salary withheld
- 66.4%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 4
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $122,345
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $89,508 and a tenth over $159,612.
Civil Engineering, 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 | 11,091 | 36.9% |
| September 2016 | 11,112 | 36.1% |
| September 2017 | 11,012 | 35.5% |
| September 2018 | 11,079 | 35.3% |
| September 2019 | 11,366 | 35.0% |
| September 2020 | 11,687 | 35.4% |
| September 2021 | 11,837 | 35.6% |
| September 2022 | 11,851 | 36.4% |
| September 2023 | 12,171 | 36.4% |
| September 2024 | 12,480 | 36.6% |
| September 2025 | 12,031 | 36.4% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 10,273 | 33.6% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 10,256 | 33.6% |
| August 2026 | 10,220 | 33.6% |
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 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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