Communications Consultant 5 pay range
State of Washington · class code 197M
- Class code
- 197M
- Salary range
- 62
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Communications Consultant 5 is $74,748 to $100,488 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 197M.
- 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 62 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 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 | $100,488 |
| Monthly | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 | $8,374 |
| Hourly | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 | $48.13 |
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
Plans, organizes, directs and controls multiple information and/or public relations programs in a State agency/institution.
Examples of the work
Serves as spokesperson for agency/institution and director to news media and the general public; Plans, develops, administers and directs complex and extensive information and public relations program based on internal and external communications needs of the agency/institution; Serves as principal staff specialist and professional consultant to agency/institution and division heads in field of communications and public relations; serves as member of agency/institution policy committee and attends executive staff sessions; Responsible for performing administrative tasks in direct support of communications programs of agency/institution; establishes objectives of information and public relati ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree involving major study in journalism, communications, public relations, or closely allied field AND Four years of professional experience in information, journalism or public relations. Additional professional experience in information, journalism, or public relations will be substituted, year for year, for education.
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.