Mechanical Engineering
12,961 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 963 of them, and the median of those is $133,964.
Mechanical Engineering, May 2026
- 12,961
- Employees
- 963
- Salary published
- 7.4% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 11,995
- Salary withheld
- 92.5%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 3
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $133,964
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $90,518 and a tenth over $187,093.
Mechanical 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 | 12,281 | 9.5% |
| September 2016 | 12,844 | 9.5% |
| September 2017 | 13,148 | 9.3% |
| September 2018 | 13,712 | 8.9% |
| September 2019 | 14,176 | 8.9% |
| September 2020 | 14,540 | 8.7% |
| September 2021 | 14,639 | 8.5% |
| September 2022 | 14,245 | 8.3% |
| September 2023 | 14,376 | 8.3% |
| September 2024 | 14,592 | 8.2% |
| September 2025 | 14,307 | 8.0% |
| May 2026 | 12,961 | 7.4% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 12,979 | 7.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 13,041 | 7.4% |
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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