Drafting Technician I pay range
State of Texas · class code 2181
- Class code
- 2181
- Pay group
- A18
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Texas
- The State of Texas published pay range for Drafting Technician I is $45,521 to $71,055 per year.
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office keys this classification as class code 2181.
- 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 Drafting Technician 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 drafting work compiling and organizing engineering and drafting data, designing structures and recommending design changes, and preparing specifications and estimates.
Examples of the work
Designs structures and recommends design changes. Prepares preliminary and final plans, specifications, estimates, detailed drawings from field notes, instructions, original plans, proposed changes, diagrams, and other data. Prepares preliminary and final quantity estimates and hydraulic calculations for drainage structures. Draws plans and maps by hand or with computer-aided graphics and makes revisions as needed. Produces contour maps, isometric projections, miscellaneous sketches, and right-of-way maps. Assembles construction information and details for plans, calculates vertical and horizontal curves, and plots preliminary and final cross sections.
Minimum qualifications
Experience in drafting work. Graduation from a standard senior high school or equivalent supplemented by courses in drafting, architectural or mechanical drawing, and mathematics is generally preferred. Experience and education may be substituted for one another.
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.