Statistics
2,989 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 2,856 of them, and the median of those is $135,024.
Statistics, May 2026
- 2,989
- Employees
- 2,856
- Salary published
- 95.6% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 122
- Salary withheld
- 4.1%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 11
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $135,024
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $105,829 and a tenth over $186,207.
Statistics, 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 | 3,195 | 95.6% |
| September 2016 | 3,300 | 95.7% |
| September 2017 | 3,327 | 95.6% |
| September 2018 | 3,230 | 95.5% |
| September 2019 | 3,192 | 95.3% |
| September 2020 | 3,386 | 95.1% |
| September 2021 | 3,522 | 96.0% |
| September 2022 | 3,587 | 96.2% |
| September 2023 | 3,694 | 96.0% |
| September 2024 | 3,855 | 96.0% |
| September 2025 | 3,459 | 95.2% |
| May 2026 | 2,989 | 95.6% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 2,979 | 95.8% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 2,986 | 95.9% |
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 September 26, 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
Data retrieved