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The median salary in the Cartography series stood at $116,362 across the 333 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.

475 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 70.1% of them whose salary it publishes.

Cartography, August 2026

475
Employees
333
Salary published
70.1% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
142
Salary withheld
29.9%, under OPM's own release policy.
0
Neither withheld nor averaged
Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
$116,362
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $87,503 and a tenth over $167,902.

Cartography, 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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Cartography: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 201560078.5%
September 201660577.2%
September 201759076.9%
September 201858275.9%
September 201957275.0%
September 202060074.3%
September 202159074.7%
September 202259974.1%
September 202357673.8%
September 202459173.1%
September 202554071.7%
June 2026 (provisional)48970.1%
July 2026 (provisional)48369.8%
August 202647570.1%

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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