Industrial Insurance Underwriter 5 pay range
State of Washington · class code 153M
- Class code
- 153M
- Salary range
- 56
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Industrial Insurance Underwriter 5 is $64,512 to $86,688 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 153M.
- 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 56 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 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 |
| Monthly | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 |
| Hourly | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 |
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
Supervises a unit of professional Industrial Insurance Underwriters whose responsibilities include underwriting, education and consulting on State Fund industrial insurance policies and risk classification under Washington State Industrial Laws.
Examples of the work
Supervises a unit of professional industrial insurance underwriters and other staff members assigned to a team and/or unit. Plans, prioritizes, assigns, and evaluates the work of staff to ensure that State Fund insurance policies, determinations of coverage, risk classification assignments and experience ratings are consistent with current Revised Codes of Washington (RCW), Washington Administrative Codes (WACs), and Department policy and procedures; Plans and ensures the business of the agency is conducted in an appropriate, efficient, and cost effective manner; Analyzes and manages daily, weekly, and/or monthly workload data and evaluates procedures; Ensures workload coverage when staff me ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree with a field of focus involving tax liabilities, insurance benefits, risk classification, accounting or bookkeeping work, research, statistical or management analysis or related fields. AND One year experience as an Industrial Insurance Underwriter; or one year experience supervising staff involved insurance benefits related work. Additional qualifying experience may substitute year for year, for the required education. This experience must include four years of direct customer service.
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.