Pipefitting

3,412 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 1 of them, and the median of those is Too few to publish.

Pipefitting, May 2026

3,412
Employees: 1
Salary published: < 0.1% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.; 2,637
Salary withheld: 77.3%, under OPM's own release policy.; 774
Neither withheld nor averaged: Paid hourly, per diem or on another basis, or with no pay recorded. Not withheld, and not in the median.; Too few to publish
Median salary: Fewer than five published salaries, and a median of so few would identify them.

Pipefitting, 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.

1 more column on a wider screen

Pipefitting: employees and published pay by month.
Month	Employees	Salary published	Median salary
September 2015	3,515	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2016	3,536	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2017	3,443	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2018	3,528	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2019	3,548	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2020	3,529	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2021	3,485	0.0%	Not published
September 2022	3,403	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2023	3,495	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2024	3,523	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
September 2025	3,462	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
May 2026	3,412	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
June 2026 (provisional)	3,403	< 0.1%	Too few to publish
July 2026 (provisional)	3,397	< 0.1%	Too few to publish

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

Data retrieved September 26, 2026