Electronics Engineering
13,299 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 1,768 of them, and the median of those is $156,562.
Electronics Engineering, May 2026
- 13,299
- Employees
- 1,768
- Salary published
- 13.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 11,530
- Salary withheld
- 86.7%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 1
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $156,562
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $104,986 and a tenth over $197,200.
Electronics 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 | 19,148 | 13.7% |
| September 2016 | 19,154 | 13.6% |
| September 2017 | 18,898 | 13.7% |
| September 2018 | 18,569 | 13.7% |
| September 2019 | 18,279 | 13.8% |
| September 2020 | 17,977 | 14.0% |
| September 2021 | 17,451 | 13.8% |
| September 2022 | 16,557 | 14.1% |
| September 2023 | 16,012 | 14.1% |
| September 2024 | 15,695 | 14.1% |
| September 2025 | 15,035 | 13.9% |
| May 2026 | 13,299 | 13.3% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 13,293 | 13.3% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 13,262 | 13.2% |
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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