Farmer 4 pay range
State of Washington · class code 565L
- Class code
- 565L
- Salary range
- 48
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Farmer 4 is $52,872 to $71,136 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 565L.
- 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
This is the senior, specialist, or leadworker level of the series. Leads assigned crew and performs a variety of assignments assisting in the management of a game farm or operating creamery equipment. Regularly assigns, instructs, and checks the work of others. May supervise and train lower laborers, farm workers, and part-time helpers
Examples of the work
Directs farming operations in absence of supervisor; Leads assistants and performs activities in the feeding, breeding, management, and general care of animals including research and teaching functions; Supervises staff subordinate game farm personnel in breeding, egg taking, hatching, raising, and caring for pheasants and other game birds; Supervises work crews typically involved in construction, maintenance, and repair of game farm buildings and equipment; Detects, diagnoses, and treats common poultry diseases; debeaks and brails birds; selects brood stock; Receives, weighs, tests, and dumps milk delivered to a creamery; Operates pasteurizers, homogenizers, bottling machines, churns, and b ...
Minimum qualifications
Two years’ experience in game farm operations or one year of experience in a creamery or dairy processing work. Some positions require the ability to obtain a food handler’s permit and appropriate state licenses. 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.