Document Analysis
68 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 50 of them, and the median of those is $158,306.
Document Analysis, May 2026
- 68
- Employees
- 50
- Salary published
- 73.5% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 18
- Salary withheld
- 26.5%, 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.
- $158,306
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $116,071 and a tenth over $187,093.
Document Analysis, 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 | 84 | 84.5% |
| September 2016 | 86 | 81.4% |
| September 2017 | 85 | 82.4% |
| September 2018 | 85 | 81.2% |
| September 2019 | 79 | 82.3% |
| September 2020 | 78 | 76.9% |
| September 2021 | 77 | 76.6% |
| September 2022 | 76 | 80.3% |
| September 2023 | 76 | 76.3% |
| September 2024 | 82 | 72.0% |
| September 2025 | 75 | 70.7% |
| May 2026 | 68 | 73.5% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 69 | 73.9% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 68 | 75.0% |
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