Land Surveyor 2 pay range
State of Washington · class code 527E
- Class code
- 527E
- Salary range
- 59
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Land Surveyor 2 is $69,348 to $93,288 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 527E.
- 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 59 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 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 |
| Monthly | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 |
| Hourly | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 |
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 journey level land survey work in office or field.
Examples of the work
In the field, locates rights-of-way, topographic features, property lines, corners and boundaries; supervises field survey party; collect control and travers data, makes notations for office computation, checking and mapping; analyzes record survey data and recovers positions of General Land Office and other boundary corners; monuments GLO and other boundary corners; performs control surveys; Searches federal, state, local government and private records for deeds, survey maps, corner history, and other relevant information; searches for, analyzes, and arranges to obtain historical survey records and maps and develops methodologies to incorporate these records into a document management syste ...
Minimum qualifications
Four years of experience performing land survey work, including two years as a skilled land survey technician at Engineering Aide 3, equivalent or higher level such as instrument technician, skilled drafter/computer or survey records researcher/analyst. Four years of college work with major emphasis in engineering, forestry or other curriculum which contained courses in land surveying may be substituted for two years of general land survey experience. OR Certification as a registered Land-Surveyor-In-Training. 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.