Cartography Supervisor/Technical Spec pay range
State of Washington · class code 541I
- Class code
- 541I
- Salary range
- 63
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Cartography Supervisor/Technical Spec is $76,608 to $102,996 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 541I.
- 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 63 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 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 | $100,488 | $102,996 |
| Monthly | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 | $8,374 | $8,583 |
| Hourly | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 | $48.13 | $49.33 |
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
Independently performs complex professional GIS and cartography projects and/or activities for a division or region in order to provide geographic products, services and/or information using conventional and/or computerized methods. OR Supervises a cartography or geography program and unit of three or more Cartographers who are responsible for geographic or mapping information systems and services.
Examples of the work
Administers the production of maps and/or digital data; Devises methods and processes to gather and develop GIS data using applications; Independently plans, prioritizes, analyzes and develops methods to research, design, compile and produce spatial data sets, reports, and maps from various electronic and manual source materials; Designs, manages, and responsible for the input of data into geographic databases; Designs, compiles and produces new county, city, administrative and township data sets, reports, and maps utilizing field reports, engineer's plans and plats, aerial photographs, U.S.G.S.
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 AND Four years of professional cartography experience or geographic information systems production experience. A Master's degree with major study in cartography may be substituted for two years of experience. OR Technical or additional professional cartography experience may be substituted, year for year, for education. OR Two years’ experience as a Cartographer 3.
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.