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Operations Research
The Operations Research series had 4,887 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 763 of them, 15.6%, and the median of those is $163,514: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Operations Research, August 2026
- 4,887
- Employees
- 763
- Salary published
- 15.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 4,124
- Salary withheld
- 84.4%, 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.
- $163,514
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $115,742 and a tenth over $198,281.
Operations Research, 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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| Month | Employees | Salary published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | 4,941 | 18.7% |
| September 2016 | 5,074 | 19.1% |
| September 2017 | 5,035 | 19.0% |
| September 2018 | 5,191 | 18.2% |
| September 2019 | 5,347 | 17.2% |
| September 2020 | 5,502 | 18.0% |
| September 2021 | 5,583 | 18.0% |
| September 2022 | 5,542 | 18.4% |
| September 2023 | 5,665 | 17.3% |
| September 2024 | 5,870 | 17.1% |
| September 2025 | 5,509 | 16.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 5,066 | 15.1% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 4,891 | 15.6% |
| August 2026 | 4,887 | 15.6% |
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 October 9, 2026
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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