Cartographer 2 pay range
State of Washington · class code 541F
- Class code
- 541F
- Salary range
- 47
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Cartographer 2 is $51,600 to $69,348 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 541F.
- 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 47 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 | $51,600 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 |
| Monthly | $4,300 | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 |
| Hourly | $24.71 | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 |
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 entry professional cartographic evaluation, analysis, compilation, information derivation, and development of processes and procedures to gather, prescribe and interpret information input and to produce maps or map/data products by computer aided drafting, geographic information system or conventional means.
Examples of the work
Designs maps under close supervision; produces revisions of maps utilizing field reports, engineer's plans and plats, aerial photographs, U.S.G.S. quadrangles, coast and geodetic charts and other reliable sources; Performs miscellaneous map, chart, graph and display work; Digitizes points (i.e., section corners and survey control points) and lines (i.e., roads and streams) per established procedures through the use of an electronic cursor unit or keyboard input station; Assists instructors in a higher education institution and supervises students in research or academic projects; Maintains map collections and libraries; Operates and maintains cartographic and research equipment; Edits mappin ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's 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 four years of: 1) related undergraduate college education and 2) full-time experience in technical cartographic or geographic information systems production will substitute for the Bachelor's 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.