Forest Nursery Laborer pay range
State of Washington · class code 521J
- Class code
- 521J
- Salary range
- 34
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Forest Nursery Laborer is $38,340 to $50,412 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 521J.
- 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 34 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 | $38,340 | $39,036 | $39,924 | $40,836 | $41,820 | $42,780 | $43,836 | $44,856 | $45,924 | $47,004 | $48,048 | $49,296 | $50,412 |
| Monthly | $3,195 | $3,253 | $3,327 | $3,403 | $3,485 | $3,565 | $3,653 | $3,738 | $3,827 | $3,917 | $4,004 | $4,108 | $4,201 |
| Hourly | $18.36 | $18.70 | $19.12 | $19.56 | $20.03 | $20.49 | $20.99 | $21.48 | $21.99 | $22.51 | $23.01 | $23.61 | $24.14 |
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
Performs unskilled forest nursery labor under close direction and specific assignment.
Examples of the work
Lifts seedlings, plants, and trees for transplanting; assists in setting up and operating irrigation equipment as directed; plants seed and seedlings with seedling feeder on mechanical planter, or by using hand‑powered planting machine; load and unload bundles of seedlings from trucks for warehousing; Table sorts’ seedling trees; culls damaged, dry, and misshapen trees; counts and ties them into bundles, and places them in bags and transfers to cold storage; Wets beds of seedling trees by hand; counts trees in sample plots; hand thins seedlings with pruning shears; Follows simple procedures to assist in seed germination tests and to stratify seeds; Uses hand, farm, and garden tools ‑ power s ...
Minimum qualifications
None.
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.