Cytology Technologist 1 pay range
State of Washington · class code 297S
- Class code
- 297S
- Salary range
- 48
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Cytology Technologist 1 is $52,872 to $71,136 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 297S.
- 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 48 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 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 |
| Monthly | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 |
| Hourly | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 |
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
Conduct clinical diagnostic procedures and /or research activities in a clinical cytology laboratory.
Examples of the work
Sign out final negative diagnosis of gynecological slides; integrate patient information with the cellular presentation to develop preliminary diagnosis; Microscopically evaluate slide to recognize normal cellular morphology and pathologic conditions such as inflammation, inflammatory agents, reactive changes, benign conditions, neoplastic, pre-malignant conditions, and malignant tumors; highlight any abnormality; Screen and evaluate prepared slides of cellular samplings obtained by a variety of means from a variety of body sites such as kidney, brain, eye, thyroid, respiratory tract, GI tract and female genital tract; Monitor and record daily workload to include the total number of slides e ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor of Science Degree AND Graduation from an Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES) accredited school of cytotechnology or other organization approved by Health and Human Services (HHS) AND American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Registry (BOR) certification as a Cytotechnologist (CT). Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
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.