First Assistant Engineer
99 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 23 of them, and the median of those is $120,537.
First Assistant Engineer, May 2026
- 99
- Employees
- 23
- Salary published
- 23.2% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 76
- Salary withheld
- 76.8%, 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.
- $120,537
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $116,019 and a tenth over $122,697.
First Assistant 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 | 94 | 27.7% |
| September 2016 | 107 | 22.4% |
| September 2017 | 99 | 24.2% |
| September 2018 | 106 | 23.6% |
| September 2019 | 102 | 21.6% |
| September 2020 | 100 | 22.0% |
| September 2021 | 104 | 19.2% |
| September 2022 | 110 | 20.0% |
| September 2023 | 99 | 18.2% |
| September 2024 | 114 | 22.8% |
| September 2025 | 103 | 24.3% |
| May 2026 | 99 | 23.2% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 101 | 21.8% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 100 | 20.0% |
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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