Natural Resource Operations Supervisor 1 pay range
State of Washington · class code 517E
- Class code
- 517E
- Salary range
- 50
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Natural Resource Operations Supervisor 1 is $55,596 to $74,748 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 517E.
- 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 50 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 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 |
| Monthly | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 |
| Hourly | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $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
Plans, coordinates, and supervises a nursery greenhouse, seed orchard, bare-root facility, or other comparable natural resource operation OR Assists a higher level camp manager in managing natural resource operations at a correctional facility. The camp manager positions function as a second-line supervisor over inmate crews performing a variety of natural resource labor management activities.
Examples of the work
Plans, organizes, directs and controls the work activities of a cooperative corrections camp or portion of a camp that performs labor intensive natural resource management activities; leads and/or coordinates work planning processes with agency field managers, staff resource managers, and outside local, State and Federal agency personnel; writes work plans; schedules and assigns work, sets performance standards and resolves problems in accomplishing work; Coordinates activities for cooperative relations between DSHS/DOC and DNR such as operating agreements, facilities operations, inmate assignments and problems, interagency relations, etc., peculiar to joint operations of honor camps; Direct ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree involving major study in agronomy, horticulture, forest science, or a closely related field. Two years of technical or professional experience in a forest nursery is preferred. OR Five years of experience as a supervisor of crews performing natural resource labor management activities and one year of experience as a staff assistant performing professional natural resource management projects or tasks.
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.