Contracts Assistant pay range
State of Washington · class code 144E
- Class code
- 144E
- Salary range
- 39
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Contracts Assistant is $42,780 to $56,952 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 144E.
- 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 39 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 | $42,780 | $43,836 | $44,856 | $45,924 | $47,004 | $48,048 | $49,296 | $50,412 | $51,600 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 |
| Monthly | $3,565 | $3,653 | $3,738 | $3,827 | $3,917 | $4,004 | $4,108 | $4,201 | $4,300 | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 |
| Hourly | $20.49 | $20.99 | $21.48 | $21.99 | $22.51 | $23.01 | $23.61 | $24.14 | $24.71 | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 |
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
Assists in contract development, award, administration and termination; in a large contracts staff may be assigned one or more specialized functions such as the review of status reports or the development of contract close-out letters.
Examples of the work
Assists Contracts Specialists or other agency officials in the development of contract specifications; terms, pricing and bid invitations; assists in contracts negotiations, awards and performance review; Develops and maintains contracts expenditures and financial status reports; reviews claims for conformance with terms of contract; Reviews draft contracts for compliance with provisions of governing laws and statutes; when required, obtains decision or ruling from the Office of the Attorney General; Coordinates contracts fiscal information with agency accounting office; provides progress and contracts status information to other staff sections of the agency; Assembles background material fo ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree with major study in business administration, or closely allied field, or public administration. Technical experience in the development, administration or termination of contracts may be substituted for college-level course work on a year-for-year basis. Equivalent education/experience.
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.