Crime Laboratory pay range
State of Texas · class code 6124
- Class code
- 6124
- Pay group
- B21
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Texas
- The State of Texas published pay range for Crime Laboratory is $54,278 to $87,046 per year.
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office keys this classification as class code 6124.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office publishes one State Auditor's Office job description (series) for the Crime Laboratory Specialist series, which includes this class. 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.
What the state says the job is
Performs crime laboratory work involving collecting, identifying, classifying, and processing physical evidence related to criminal investigations, as well as friction ridge, seized drugs, firearms, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) identification work.
Examples of the work
Enters friction ridge cases into the automated fingerprint identification system and identifies the axis and core of each friction ridge entered into the system. Evaluates and analyzes friction ridges and photographs of friction ridges submitted by law enforcement agencies. Evaluates and processes seized drugs submitted by law enforcement agencies. Evaluates firearms, bullets, and cartridge cases submitted by law enforcement agencies and enters images of those items into computer imaging databases. Maintains and handles evidence, including receipt, bar coding, storage, return, destruction, and inventory. Maintains, orders, and inventories crime laboratory supplies and chemicals.
Minimum qualifications
Experience in crime laboratory, seized drugs, firearms, and/or fingerprint identification work. Graduation from a standard senior high school or equivalent is generally preferred. Experience and education may be substituted for one another.
Special requirements
May require registration, certification, or licensure in a specialty area.
Quoted from the State Auditor's Office job description (series), read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office publishes this figure in Classification Salary Schedule for Fiscal 2026-27, joined to the State's Position Classification Plan (SAO report 25-701). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their pay groups come from the State's Position Classification Plan, joined to the salary schedule.