Revenue Tax Auditor III pay range
State of North Carolina · class code 32000321
- Class code
- 32000321
- Pay group
- NC20
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- North Carolina
- The State of North Carolina published pay range for Revenue Tax Auditor III is $70,478 to $123,336 per year.
- North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) keys this classification as class code 32000321.
- 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 06/2016.
What the state says the job is
The Revenue Tax Auditor III is the managerial level auditor who maintains oversight of all aspects of an audit group and its staff that audits assigned schedules. Most supervisory auditors serve for a period of time as team leaders. This position has considerable experience as a team leader and audits conducted by this position are generally complex in nature and involve highly technical tax issues. All audits may use many different accounting systems that involve various and numerous technical issues and require extensive knowledge of investigative methods to complete the examination and determine the proper tax due. The position may supervise a team of auditors in which quality assurance oversight of subordinate work is a major responsibility of this position. The work product must be technically correct and conform to the standards set by management.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and auditing techniques and the ability to apply these techniques to proprietorships, partnerships, trusts, fiduciaries, and large business entities having multiple divisions or subsidiaries or related entities with varied and complex accounting systems is required. Considerable knowledge of the revenue laws of North Carolina, the North Carolina administrative code, the divisions' technical advice memorandums and directives, departmental policies, Secretaries' decisions, court decisions, and Attorney Generals' opinions is required to facilitate the examinations for all tax schedules.
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Accounting or related field with at least twelve semester hours of accounting from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of experience as a Revenue Tax Auditor including one year in an advanced, specialized, or supervisory capacity; 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.