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Survey Technical

246 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 95 of them, and the median of those is $61,722.

Survey Technical, May 2026

246
Employees
95
Salary published
38.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
151
Salary withheld
61.4%, 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.
$61,722
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $46,060 and a tenth over $85,887.

Survey Technical, 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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Survey Technical: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201528959.9%
September 201628258.2%
September 201727455.8%
September 201828252.8%
September 201928549.1%
September 202030949.8%
September 202129047.9%
September 202229345.4%
September 202332445.4%
September 202431345.4%
September 202528941.9%
May 202624638.6%
June 2026 (provisional)24939.4%
July 2026 (provisional)24839.1%

How the federal salary figures are made

Sources

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

Data retrieved