Chief Engineer
122 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 24 of them, and the median of those is $197,038.
Chief Engineer, May 2026
- 122
- Employees
- 24
- Salary published
- 19.7% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 97
- Salary withheld
- 79.5%, 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.
- $197,038
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $191,436 and a tenth over $202,421.
Chief Engineer, 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 | 105 | 20.0% |
| September 2016 | 112 | 21.4% |
| September 2017 | 109 | 22.0% |
| September 2018 | 106 | 21.7% |
| September 2019 | 114 | 18.4% |
| September 2020 | 115 | 18.3% |
| September 2021 | 122 | 18.9% |
| September 2022 | 115 | 20.0% |
| September 2023 | 115 | 20.0% |
| September 2024 | 110 | 23.6% |
| September 2025 | 119 | 20.2% |
| May 2026 | 122 | 19.7% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 122 | 20.5% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 128 | 22.7% |
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 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
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