Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering
1,049 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 928 of them, and the median of those is $143,062.
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering, May 2026
- 1,049
- Employees
- 928
- Salary published
- 88.5% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 115
- Salary withheld
- 11.0%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 6
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $143,062
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $93,632 and a tenth over $194,500.
Bioengineering & Biomedical 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 | 849 | 87.9% |
| September 2016 | 864 | 86.8% |
| September 2017 | 889 | 85.6% |
| September 2018 | 891 | 86.1% |
| September 2019 | 901 | 84.8% |
| September 2020 | 906 | 85.5% |
| September 2021 | 932 | 86.3% |
| September 2022 | 943 | 86.3% |
| September 2023 | 1,039 | 87.4% |
| September 2024 | 1,124 | 88.0% |
| September 2025 | 1,060 | 89.0% |
| May 2026 | 1,049 | 88.5% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 1,045 | 88.8% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 1,042 | 88.8% |
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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