Oceanography
384 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 166 of them, and the median of those is $161,332.
Oceanography, May 2026
- 384
- Employees
- 166
- Salary published
- 43.2% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 205
- Salary withheld
- 53.4%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 13
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $161,332
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $115,446 and a tenth over $197,200.
Oceanography, 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 | 563 | 52.8% |
| September 2016 | 591 | 51.8% |
| September 2017 | 562 | 53.9% |
| September 2018 | 552 | 51.4% |
| September 2019 | 541 | 49.5% |
| September 2020 | 546 | 50.4% |
| September 2021 | 531 | 50.7% |
| September 2022 | 498 | 50.8% |
| September 2023 | 485 | 50.5% |
| September 2024 | 464 | 48.5% |
| September 2025 | 424 | 44.8% |
| May 2026 | 384 | 43.2% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 379 | 42.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 380 | 42.4% |
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
Data retrieved