Computer Engineering
3,948 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 631 of them, and the median of those is $162,478.
Computer Engineering, May 2026
- 3,948
- Employees
- 631
- Salary published
- 16.0% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 3,317
- Salary withheld
- 84.0%, 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.
- $162,478
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $121,526 and a tenth over $197,200.
Computer 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 | 4,603 | 24.7% |
| September 2016 | 4,712 | 23.8% |
| September 2017 | 4,822 | 23.5% |
| September 2018 | 4,792 | 22.2% |
| September 2019 | 4,928 | 21.9% |
| September 2020 | 5,007 | 21.4% |
| September 2021 | 5,004 | 21.3% |
| September 2022 | 4,800 | 21.0% |
| September 2023 | 4,748 | 20.0% |
| September 2024 | 4,765 | 18.8% |
| September 2025 | 4,557 | 17.3% |
| May 2026 | 3,948 | 16.0% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 3,938 | 15.9% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 3,936 | 15.9% |
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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