Forest Nursery Technician pay range
State of Washington · class code 522J
- Class code
- 522J
- Salary range
- 41
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Forest Nursery Technician is $44,856 to $59,760 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 522J.
- 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 41 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 | $44,856 | $45,924 | $47,004 | $48,048 | $49,296 | $50,412 | $51,600 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 |
| Monthly | $3,738 | $3,827 | $3,917 | $4,004 | $4,108 | $4,201 | $4,300 | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 |
| Hourly | $21.48 | $21.99 | $22.51 | $23.01 | $23.61 | $24.14 | $24.71 | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 |
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
Participate in the work of various phases of nursery operations and the maintenance and care of plants. May lead or supervise crews engaged in planting, lifting, sorting, packing, storing trees for shipment, labelling, weeding, irrigation, spraying, fertilizing, mixing, fumigating, and sterilizing soils.
Examples of the work
Maintains inventory and reconciliations of physical inventories using manual or automated systems; operates various material handling machines such as forklift trucks, and pallet jacks; drives trucks, tractors, and other equipment; checks and oversees or supervises the checking of all incoming shipments and goods received; trains nursery leads in warehouse activities; prepares seedling identification tags bearing coded information; Cares for yards and grounds, and does routine building and greenhouse cleaning and maintenance; maintains fences and roads; Issues tools; proper use and maintenance for farm tractors, transplanter, lifters, forklifts, flat fillers, seed-sowing equipment, single ax ...
Minimum qualifications
High School diploma, GED certificate or equivalent education/experience and two years of technical work experience in forest seedling nursery, ornamental plant, tree nursery, crop/vegetable farm, or warehousing; one year of which must be lead type experience. College training in one of the plant sciences may be substituted year-for-year for required experience. Lead type experience may not be substituted. Some positions may require a valid Washington State driver's license. Equivalent experience/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.