Instrument Maker 2 pay range
State of Washington · class code 604F
- Class code
- 604F
- Salary range
- 50G
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Instrument Maker 2 is $64,512 to $74,748 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 604F.
- 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 50G in the General Service Salary Schedule. The range pays 7 steps, and this class starts at step G rather than at the bottom of the range; a step is normally earned on a periodic increment date, not negotiated.
| Basis | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 |
| Monthly | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 |
| Hourly | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 |
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
Perform complex high precision work by setting up and operating precision manual and/or computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine tools such as lathes, mills, jig borers, horizontal boring mill, grinders, and drill presses to fabricate parts for research, academic and medical purposes.
Examples of the work
Confer with professors, scientists, physicians, and engineers on design and development of instruments and specialized equipment for research and academic use; Work from computer-aided design (CAD), blueprints, sketches, diagrams, written and oral instructions; suggest design or material changes when alternate configurations appear appropriate; Write computer numerical control programs using conversational programming language at the machine control or off-line at a computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) system to fabricate parts for research, academic and medical purposes; Plan and lay out work, design jigs and fixtures, determine material and fabrication methods to be ...
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as an Instrument Maker 1 OR 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.