Maintenance Specialist 2 pay range
State of Washington · class code 596I
- Class code
- 596I
- Salary range
- 45G
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Maintenance Specialist 2 is $56,952 to $66,072 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 596I.
- 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 45G 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 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 |
| Monthly | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 |
| Hourly | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 |
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
This is the journey level of the series. Assembles, erects, maintains and makes minor repairs to highway signs, sign supports, pavement markings and traffic control devices in field or shop. Work is typically reviewed on a spot check basis after decisions have been made. Unusual problems that may occur are brought to a higher level supervisor with probable outcomes and solutions. May supervise and train lower level technicians.
Examples of the work
Assists in assembling, installing and replacing signs, sign components, and sign posts, using a variety of equipment and tools such as hand diggers, portable power augers, pavement breakers, ladder trucks and hydraulic boom trucks with attached auger; this may include installation of overhead signs; washes signs using ladder truck; performs routine maintenance work as required; makes field layout and installs stop bars, pedestrian crossings and turn arrows with paint or thermo-plastic materials; paints curbing with curb striping truck; replaces and makes limited new installations of traffic lane buttons, rumble bars and other plastic-epoxy traffic control devices; installs and replaces shoul ...
Minimum qualifications
High school graduation or possession of a GED certificate and two years of highway maintenance or metal sign fabrication experience.
Special requirements
Some positions require possess a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Class A, with endorsement N, without air brakes restriction. Persons legally authorized to work in the U.S.
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.