Engineering Assistant pay range
State of North Carolina · class code 32001166
- Class code
- 32001166
- Pay group
- NC04
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- North Carolina
- The State of North Carolina published pay range for Engineering Assistant is $32,287 to $56,502 per year.
- North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) keys this classification as class code 32001166.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The OSHR class specification for this class is published by North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR). The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 12/2019.
What the state says the job is
Positions in this class perform routine or standardized work supporting higher level technicians and engineers by collecting, reviewing, analyzing, verifying, editing, computing, coding, updating, entering and processing field data. The work of this class is a combination of clerical and limited technical support. Positions support higher level technicians and engineers by performing manual or computer generated preliminary and intermediate mathematical computations using standardized formulas on data received from field and various other sources; or collect vehicle speed and classification data, indicating the level of highway use by type of vehicle.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Knowledge and understanding of basic math concepts, principles and practices. Knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts, practices, and theories used in the technical specialty area with limited supervision. Professional level knowledge of applicable standards, guideline, methods, and the tools involved in the performance of surveying, testing, or technical specialty area. Ability to perform a limited variety of standardized assignments in the collection and processing of data. Ability to collect vehicle speed and classification data by setting up electronic devices which requires installing pneumatic tubes or inductive loops on the pavement, selecting and loading the correct program ...
Minimum qualifications
High school or General Educational Development (GED) diploma; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. <h2
Quoted from the OSHR class specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) publishes this figure in OSHR salary schedules, joined to Class Specifications. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their salary grades come from the Class Specifications, joined to the salary schedule.