Purchasing
2,474 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 1,798 of them, and the median of those is $57,188.
Purchasing, May 2026
- 2,474
- Employees
- 1,798
- Salary published
- 72.7% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 666
- Salary withheld
- 26.9%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 10
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $57,188
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $48,436 and a tenth over $71,209.
Purchasing, 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 | 2,960 | 58.7% |
| September 2016 | 3,110 | 53.4% |
| September 2017 | 3,155 | 53.3% |
| September 2018 | 3,118 | 59.6% |
| September 2019 | 3,197 | 60.7% |
| September 2020 | 3,175 | 63.4% |
| September 2021 | 3,163 | 65.1% |
| September 2022 | 3,053 | 66.4% |
| September 2023 | 3,133 | 69.7% |
| September 2024 | 3,107 | 68.9% |
| September 2025 | 2,572 | 73.3% |
| May 2026 | 2,474 | 72.7% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 2,470 | 72.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 2,457 | 72.6% |
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
Data retrieved