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Clinical Nurse Specialist pay range

State of Ohio · class code 65591

Published per hour range, State of Ohio

Class code: 65591
Pay range: 15
Pay unit: Hour
Bargaining unit: 11
State: Ohio

The State of Ohio published pay range for Clinical Nurse Specialist is $43.56 to $61.09 per hour.
That works out to about $90,605 to $127,067 a year at full time.
Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS) keys this classification as class code 65591.
This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.

Step progression

Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS) assigns this class to pay range 15 in the DAS Pay Range Booklet. The range pays 8 steps; a step is normally earned on a periodic increment date, not negotiated. It sits in bargaining unit code 11.

Basis	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Annual	$90,605	$95,098	$99,736	$104,770	$109,949	$115,357	$120,973	$127,067
Hourly	$43.56	$45.72	$47.95	$50.37	$52.86	$55.46	$58.16	$61.09

Steps as published. The hourly figure is the state's own; the annual row is that rate at 2080 hours a year, which the state does not publish.

The same range, converted

Basis	Minimum	Maximum
Per hour	$43.56	$61.09
Per week at 40 hours	$1,742.40	$2,443.60
Per year at 2080 hours	$90,605	$127,067

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

Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS) publishes this figure in DAS Pay Range Booklet, published 2026-09-08. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.

Nearby classes in Ohio

Environmental Manager $40.40 to $57.67 Deputy Director 1 $16.23 to $58.74 Correctional Physician Assistant $43.56 to $61.09 Physician Assistant $43.56 to $61.09 Correctional Nurse Practitioner $43.56 to $61.09 Nurse Practitioner $43.56 to $61.09 Correctional Advanced Practice Nurse Psychiatric-Mental Health $43.56 to $61.09 Advanced Practice Nurse Psychiatric-Mental Health $43.56 to $61.09

Clinical Nurse Specialist in other states

State	Minimum	Maximum	Per year at full time
Indiana	$56,316	$87,308	$56,316 to $87,308
Maryland	$99,442	$156,822	$99,442 to $156,822
Washington	$106,260	$197,112	$106,260 to $197,112

Each state publishes its own range for a classification with this exact title. Duties, grade structures and bargaining units differ between states, so read each class page before comparing.

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