Natural Resource Specialist 4 pay range
State of Washington · class code 523V
- Class code
- 523V
- Salary range
- 57
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Natural Resource Specialist 4 is $66,072 to $88,788 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 523V.
- 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 57 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 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 |
| Monthly | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 |
| Hourly | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 |
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
Positions supervise a unit of natural resource professional staff. OR Positions act as the designated natural resource program technical expert for an agency division or region in a specified field of work. OR Positions act as the technical manager for the geoduck compliance dive team.
Examples of the work
Serves as the region designated technical expert for right-of-way acquisition, land sales, land exchanges, land purchases, trust land transfer, trespasses and upland leasing which may include leases for rock, minerals, oil and gas, communication sites, commercial and special use; Serves as the division leasing specialist responsible for program guidance, coordination and administration of special use, agricultural and grazing leases for four western Washington regions; Serves as the region’s designated technical expert in the forest practices program, providing expertise on forest practice rule interpretation and procedures; Serves as the Aquatic Invasive Species Program Manager, implementin ...
Minimum qualifications
A bachelor’s degree involving major study in forestry, agriculture, aquaculture, geology, biological science, environmental science, real estate, land use or environmental planning, public policy, recreation, or related natural science and three years of professional experience in a natural resource program area or one year of experience as a Natural Resource Specialist 3. AND For some positions one year of diving experience. AND Some positions must have dive instructor level certification. Some positions may require a class A Commercial Driver’s License. For some positions, two years of experience as a Natural Resource Specialist 2 or higher and one year of supervisory 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.