Third Assistant Engineer
186 federal civilian employees in May 2026, as the Office of Personnel Management published them. OPM publishes a salary for 21 of them, and the median of those is $96,918.
Third Assistant Engineer, May 2026
- 186
- Employees
- 21
- Salary published
- 11.3% of them. Every pay figure here divides by this.
- 164
- Salary withheld
- 88.2%, 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.
- $96,918
- Median salary
- Annual rate, over those paid per annum. It excludes overtime, awards and bonuses.
A tenth of published salaries are under $93,276 and a tenth over $98,635.
Third 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 | 337 | 9.8% |
| September 2016 | 423 | 7.3% |
| September 2017 | 386 | 8.3% |
| September 2018 | 369 | 8.1% |
| September 2019 | 301 | 8.0% |
| September 2020 | 312 | 5.8% |
| September 2021 | 315 | 8.3% |
| September 2022 | 245 | 8.2% |
| September 2023 | 212 | 10.4% |
| September 2024 | 190 | 14.7% |
| September 2025 | 188 | 12.8% |
| May 2026 | 186 | 11.3% |
| June 2026 (provisional) | 184 | 10.3% |
| July 2026 (provisional) | 191 | 10.5% |
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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