Record · Occupation
Chemical Engineering
The Chemical Engineering series had 799 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 191 of them, 23.9%, and the median of those is $150,324: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Chemical Engineering, August 2026
- 799
- Employees
- 191
- Salary published
- 23.9% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 606
- Salary withheld
- 75.8%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 2
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $150,324
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $112,472 and a tenth over $195,676.
Chemical Engineering, from September 2015 to August 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 | 1,161 | 27.8% |
| September 2016 | 1,151 | 27.5% |
| September 2017 | 1,163 | 27.1% |
| September 2018 | 1,145 | 25.0% |
| September 2019 | 1,131 | 24.1% |
| September 2020 | 1,120 | 23.8% |
| September 2021 | 1,099 | 23.9% |
| September 2022 | 1,018 | 24.6% |
| September 2023 | 976 | 24.4% |
| September 2024 | 976 | 25.2% |
| September 2025 | 923 | 25.9% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 799 | 24.0% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 798 | 23.8% |
| August 2026 | 799 | 23.9% |
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 October 9, 2026
Compiled automatically from OPM Federal Workforce Data — Federal Employment Raw Data (EHRI Status) by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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