Hydrologist I pay range
State of Texas · class code 2456
- Class code
- 2456
- Pay group
- B18
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Texas
- The State of Texas published pay range for Hydrologist 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 2456.
- 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 Hydrologist 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 hydrological work collecting and analyzing data and samples, preparing reports, conducting inspections and ecological or environmental impact studies, and ensuring compliance with applicable statutes and regulations.
Examples of the work
Collects and analyzes water samples as part of field investigations or to validate data from automatic monitors. Collects chemical, physical, biological, and hydrological data; analyzes findings; and assists with data calculations and the development of recommendations for programs or projects and ecological risk assessments. Conducts inspections for compliance with laws, regulations, and specifications. Studies and documents quantities, distribution, disposition, and development of underground and surface waters. Researches laws and policies and responds to the public and other governmental agencies.
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.