Assistant State Auditor 5 pay range
State of Washington · class code 156E
- Class code
- 156E
- Salary range
- 70
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Assistant State Auditor 5 is $91,104 to $122,448 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 156E.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Step progression
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) assigns this class to salary range 70 in the General Service Salary Schedule. The range pays 13 steps; a step is normally earned on a periodic increment date, not negotiated.
| Basis | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 | $100,488 | $102,996 | $105,612 | $108,228 | $110,952 | $113,736 | $116,544 | $119,460 | $122,448 |
| Monthly | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 | $8,374 | $8,583 | $8,801 | $9,019 | $9,246 | $9,478 | $9,712 | $9,955 | $10,204 |
| Hourly | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 | $48.13 | $49.33 | $50.58 | $51.83 | $53.14 | $54.47 | $55.82 | $57.21 | $58.64 |
Steps as published. The monthly and hourly rows are the state's own, not conversions of the annual row.
Class specification
The OFM classified job specification for this class is published by Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). 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
This is the supervisory or expert level of the series. Positions conducting Financial and Compliance Audits: Supervise auditors responsible for conducting complete financial and compliance audits and investigations pertaining to Whistleblower, citizen complaints, or fraud; OR Provides technical services, develops and implements statewide auditing policies and procedures, and develops and conducts formal training; OR Establishes the budgeting, accounting, and reporting system for local governments, and provides consulting services and training for auditees and professional associations. This is the expert level for positions conducting Performance Audits: Leads performance audits including the largest and most complex assignments. Responsible for the audit from the audit planning through final audit presentation.
Examples of the work
Positions conducting Financial and Compliance Audits: Supervises a professional staff of auditors, including skills development planning, delegation of assignments, coaching, training, counseling, evaluation, and taking appropriate corrective and disciplinary action; Plans, organizes, assigns duties, and directs work activities of lower level auditors; develops audit plans and approves audit plans developed by subordinate auditors; Receives requests for special or emergency audits and advises manager of plans to alter audit schedule accordingly; Monitors budgets for all audits within area of responsibility; Develops and writes audit reports; reviews draft audit reports and working papers sub ...
Minimum qualifications
Positions conducting Financial and Compliance Audits: Bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting or other related field which included 10 semester hours or 15 quarter hours of college level accounting; AND Two years of professional experience as a journey level auditor auditing governmental entities. Auditing experience in a specialty area may be required for some positions.
Quoted from the OFM classified job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) publishes this figure in Classified Job Listing joined to the OFM salary schedules effective July 1, 2026. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The dollar figures come from the salary schedule the listing assigns this range to.