Water Quality Technician-A pay range
State of Michigan · class code WAQUTCHA
- Class code
- WAQUTCHA
- Schedule-grade
- L32-012
- Pay unit
- Hour
- Bargaining unit
- L32
- State
- Michigan
- The State of Michigan published pay range for Water Quality Technician-A is $25.51 to $36.93 per hour.
- That works out to about $53,061 to $76,814 a year at full time.
- Michigan Civil Service Commission keys this classification as class code WAQUTCHA.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Step progression
Michigan Civil Service Commission assigns this class to salary range L32-012 grade 11 in the Compensation Plan, pay schedule L32-012. The range pays 7 steps; a step is normally earned on a periodic increment date, not negotiated. It sits in bargaining unit L32.
| Basis | Base | 1 yr | 2 yr | 3 yr | 4 yr | 5 yr | 6 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $53,061 | $56,742 | $60,382 | $64,085 | $67,746 | $71,885 | $76,814 |
| Hourly | $25.51 | $27.28 | $29.03 | $30.81 | $32.57 | $34.56 | $36.93 |
Steps as published. The hourly figure is the Commission's own; the annual row is that rate at 2080 hours, not a published figure.
The same range, converted
| Basis | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Per hour | $25.51 | $36.93 |
| Per week at 40 hours | $1,020.40 | $1,477.20 |
| Per year at 2080 hours | $53,061 | $76,814 |
Conversions are arithmetic on the published rate at a standard full-time basis. The plan publishes only the per hour figure.
Where this comes from
Michigan Civil Service Commission publishes this figure in Compensation Plan Section A, Alphabetic List of Pay Ranges (effective 10/1/2025). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.