Second Assistant Engineer
188 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 25 of them, and the median of those is $108,700.
Second Assistant Engineer, May 2026
- 188
- Employees
- 25
- Salary published
- 13.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 163
- Salary withheld
- 86.7%, 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.
- $108,700
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $104,620 and a tenth over $110,642.
Second 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 | 148 | 10.8% |
| September 2016 | 182 | 11.5% |
| September 2017 | 175 | 11.4% |
| September 2018 | 157 | 12.7% |
| September 2019 | 156 | 16.7% |
| September 2020 | 158 | 15.2% |
| September 2021 | 154 | 17.5% |
| September 2022 | 163 | 13.5% |
| September 2023 | 166 | 13.9% |
| September 2024 | 167 | 16.2% |
| September 2025 | 182 | 14.3% |
| May 2026 | 188 | 13.3% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 186 | 15.6% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 181 | 14.9% |
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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