Record · Occupation
Aircraft Operation
The Aircraft Operation series had 2,444 federal civilian employees in August 2026, according to OPM.
The Office of Personnel Management publishes a salary for 262 of them, 10.7%, and the median of those is $153,816: a figure about fewer than half of them.
Aircraft Operation, August 2026
- 2,444
- Employees
- 262
- Salary published
- 10.7% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 2,182
- Salary withheld
- 89.3%, 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.
- $153,816
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $92,491 and a tenth over $201,306.
Aircraft Operation, 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 | 3,321 | 8.6% |
| September 2016 | 3,189 | 8.9% |
| September 2017 | 3,067 | 8.9% |
| September 2018 | 2,984 | 8.9% |
| September 2019 | 2,931 | 8.8% |
| September 2020 | 2,981 | 9.8% |
| September 2021 | 3,146 | 9.2% |
| September 2022 | 2,800 | 9.7% |
| September 2023 | 2,740 | 10.6% |
| September 2024 | 2,776 | 10.8% |
| September 2025 | 2,646 | 10.8% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 2,443 | 10.7% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 2,427 | 10.8% |
| August 2026 | 2,444 | 10.7% |
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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