Electrical Engineering
5,265 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 1,294 of them, and the median of those is $142,084.
Electrical Engineering, May 2026
- 5,265
- Employees
- 1,294
- Salary published
- 24.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 3,966
- Salary withheld
- 75.3%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 5
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $142,084
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $107,051 and a tenth over $182,295.
Electrical 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 | 4,952 | 30.2% |
| September 2016 | 5,160 | 29.1% |
| September 2017 | 5,333 | 28.3% |
| September 2018 | 5,620 | 27.2% |
| September 2019 | 5,753 | 26.8% |
| September 2020 | 5,861 | 27.0% |
| September 2021 | 5,928 | 26.6% |
| September 2022 | 5,810 | 26.7% |
| September 2023 | 5,888 | 26.7% |
| September 2024 | 6,059 | 26.2% |
| September 2025 | 5,850 | 25.7% |
| May 2026 | 5,265 | 24.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 5,252 | 24.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 5,297 | 24.7% |
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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