Cartographer 1 pay range
State of Washington · class code 541E
- Class code
- 541E
- Salary range
- 42
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Cartographer 1 is $45,924 to $61,332 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 541E.
- 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 42 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 | $45,924 | $47,004 | $48,048 | $49,296 | $50,412 | $51,600 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 |
| Monthly | $3,827 | $3,917 | $4,004 | $4,108 | $4,201 | $4,300 | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 |
| Hourly | $21.99 | $22.51 | $23.01 | $23.61 | $24.14 | $24.71 | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 |
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
Performs technical cartographic drafting assignments for geographic or mapping information systems and services, publications, classroom presentations and research projects.
Examples of the work
Evaluates a variety of source information such as for Public Land Survey and selects the most accurate or resolves differences and encodes, digitizes and plots into the geographic information system; sources for land survey information include original Government Land Office records, U.S.G.S. Quadrangle Maps, current land survey records, photo maps and other sources; edits the system; performs similar derivation and entry of technical information for data layers such as county boundaries, department management unit boundaries and ownership information; Creates new data layers such as land cover and activities, soils mapping, habitat classification mapping and prescriptions, and stream and ro ...
Minimum qualifications
A two-year degree in cartography, geography, photogrammetry, geographic information systems, computer sciences, remote sensing, land survey, civil engineering, natural resources or closely related field that includes at least one course in cartography and one course in computer sciences or geographic information systems. One college level course in cartography and one college level course in either computer sciences or geographic information systems AND any combination of two years of: 1) related undergraduate college education and 2) full-time experience in technical cartographic or geographic information systems production will substitute for the two-year degree.
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.