Education Program
397 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 317 of them, and the median of those is $138,024.
Education Program, May 2026
- 397
- Employees
- 317
- Salary published
- 79.9% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 79
- Salary withheld
- 19.9%, under OPM's own release policy.
- 1
- Neither withheld nor averaged
- Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.
- $138,024
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $94,597 and a tenth over $187,093.
Education Program, 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 | 660 | 88.5% |
| September 2016 | 664 | 87.7% |
| September 2017 | 616 | 88.5% |
| September 2018 | 570 | 87.7% |
| September 2019 | 555 | 86.3% |
| September 2020 | 574 | 86.1% |
| September 2021 | 596 | 85.7% |
| September 2022 | 600 | 86.3% |
| September 2023 | 614 | 86.5% |
| September 2024 | 627 | 83.6% |
| September 2025 | 490 | 80.0% |
| May 2026 | 397 | 79.8% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 396 | 78.8% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 393 | 78.9% |
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
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