Environmental Engineering
2,450 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 1,338 of them, and the median of those is $138,821.
Environmental Engineering, May 2026
- 2,450
- Employees
- 1,338
- Salary published
- 54.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 1,105
- Salary withheld
- 45.1%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 7
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $138,821
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $100,964 and a tenth over $180,242.
Environmental 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 | 3,917 | 50.5% |
| September 2016 | 3,923 | 50.8% |
| September 2017 | 3,840 | 51.1% |
| September 2018 | 3,748 | 50.7% |
| September 2019 | 3,668 | 51.5% |
| September 2020 | 3,595 | 52.2% |
| September 2021 | 3,495 | 52.7% |
| September 2022 | 3,317 | 53.4% |
| September 2023 | 3,274 | 55.1% |
| September 2024 | 3,228 | 55.9% |
| September 2025 | 2,985 | 55.7% |
| May 2026 | 2,450 | 54.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 2,432 | 54.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 2,419 | 54.7% |
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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