Record · Occupation
Mathematics
The Mathematics series had 976 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 106 of them, 10.9%, and the median of those is $190,953: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Mathematics, August 2026
- 976
- Employees
- 106
- Salary published
- 10.9% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 868
- Salary withheld
- 88.9%, 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.
- $190,953
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $133,366 and a tenth over $218,265.
Mathematics, 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 | 1,004 | 16.6% |
| September 2016 | 1,028 | 16.9% |
| September 2017 | 1,026 | 16.2% |
| September 2018 | 1,084 | 14.8% |
| September 2019 | 1,123 | 14.0% |
| September 2020 | 1,149 | 14.2% |
| September 2021 | 1,153 | 13.6% |
| September 2022 | 1,136 | 13.8% |
| September 2023 | 1,146 | 13.7% |
| September 2024 | 1,151 | 13.6% |
| September 2025 | 1,095 | 11.7% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 980 | 10.8% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 974 | 10.8% |
| August 2026 | 976 | 10.9% |
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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