Grain Warehouse Examiner pay range
State of Washington · class code 184A
- Class code
- 184A
- Salary range
- 53
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Grain Warehouse Examiner is $59,760 to $80,496 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 184A.
- 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 53 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 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 |
| Monthly | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 |
| Hourly | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 |
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
Under administrative direction, independently perform audits of large, diversified public commodity storage facilities, conditioners, and dealers and act as representatives of the State in the commodity warehouse industry.
Examples of the work
Audits various types of storage records, negotiable receipts, scale tickets, non-receipted grain accounts, daily position records and other records of deposit. Participates in complex examinations such as export ocean shipping grain terminals; Accesses and inspects grain silos for audit purposes, applies fall prevention training and ability to use ladders, electric man lifts and rope-pull man lifts to verify volume of commodity recorded; Investigates whether persons involved in storing, shipping or handling agricultural commodities are properly licensed and insured; Inspects commodities in storage by taking a physical measurement to determine if warehouse has sufficient stocks to meet its ob ...
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in agronomy, business administration, agricultural economics, or related field with at least 12 semester or 18 quarter hours of accounting courses, AND Two years of accounting work experience with exposure to audit functions. Note: Work includes exposure to chemical fumigants, must be capable of working at heights exceeding 100 feet.
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.