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Librarian

The median salary in the Librarian series stood at $126,313 across the 394 employees whose salary OPM published in August 2026, according to OPM.

664 federal civilian employees in August 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. The median is over the 59.3% of them whose salary it publishes.

Librarian, August 2026

664
Employees
394
Salary published
59.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
268
Salary withheld
40.4%, under OPM's own release policy.
2
Neither withheld nor averaged
Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
$126,313
Median salary
Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.

A tenth of published salaries are under $91,594 and a tenth over $172,700.

Librarian, 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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Librarian: employees and published pay by month.
MonthEmployeesSalary published
September 20151,07060.2%
September 20161,07460.8%
September 20171,02060.1%
September 201898060.4%
September 201994958.9%
September 202093959.0%
September 202192159.9%
September 202291460.4%
September 202389060.4%
September 202487560.1%
September 202577758.8%
June 2026 (provisional)68757.4%
July 2026 (provisional)67758.5%
August 202666459.3%

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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