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Geophysics

The median salary in the Geophysics series stood at $149,076 across the 279 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.

364 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 76.7% of them whose salary it publishes.

Geophysics, August 2026

364
Employees
279
Salary published
76.7% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
84
Salary withheld
23.1%, 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.
$149,076
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $102,873 and a tenth over $197,200.

Geophysics, 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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Geophysics: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201542181.5%
September 201643980.2%
September 201741779.6%
September 201841877.8%
September 201942476.4%
September 202043276.2%
September 202144076.1%
September 202243876.5%
September 202343078.1%
September 202442777.5%
September 202540177.1%
June 2026 (provisional)36276.8%
July 2026 (provisional)36276.8%
August 202636476.6%

How the federal salary figures are made

Sources

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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