Aerospace Engineering
8,399 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 4,394 of them, and the median of those is $158,306.
Aerospace Engineering, May 2026
- 8,399
- Employees
- 4,394
- Salary published
- 52.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 4,004
- Salary withheld
- 47.7%, 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.
- $158,306
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $114,377 and a tenth over $197,200.
Aerospace 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 | 9,310 | 54.2% |
| September 2016 | 9,417 | 53.9% |
| September 2017 | 9,467 | 54.3% |
| September 2018 | 9,635 | 53.6% |
| September 2019 | 9,545 | 52.5% |
| September 2020 | 9,818 | 53.1% |
| September 2021 | 9,940 | 53.4% |
| September 2022 | 9,777 | 53.9% |
| September 2023 | 9,842 | 54.5% |
| September 2024 | 9,922 | 53.5% |
| September 2025 | 9,684 | 51.8% |
| May 2026 | 8,399 | 52.3% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 8,425 | 52.6% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 8,587 | 53.4% |
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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