Hearings Officer V pay range
State of Texas · class code 3534
- Class code
- 3534
- Pay group
- B23
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Texas
- The State of Texas published pay range for Hearings Officer V is $61,184 to $99,658 per year.
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office keys this classification as class code 3534.
- 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 Hearings Officer 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 legal and technical work involving conducting hearings and preparing hearings decisions.
Examples of the work
Conducts hearings and prepares hearings decisions. Explains the hearing process and issues oaths and affirmations to hearing participants, monitors hearing activities, limits testimony to relevant facts, and ensures that the hearing moves expeditiously. Prepares for hearings by researching laws, regulations, policies, and legal precedents. Questions witnesses and rules on exceptions, motions, and admissibility of evidence. Confers with agency personnel to obtain additional information bearing on hearings. Issues written decisions affirming, modifying, or reversing previous rulings based on testimony, claims records, evidence, applicable provisions of laws, and established precedents.
Special requirements
May be required to be licensed and authorized to practice law in any state, territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia and to be an active member of the bar of any jurisdiction.
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.