Occupational Safety and Health Specialist 4 pay range
State of Washington · class code 399I
- Class code
- 399I
- Salary range
- 65
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Occupational Safety and Health Specialist 4 is $80,496 to $108,228 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 399I.
- 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 65 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 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 | $100,488 | $102,996 | $105,612 | $108,228 |
| Monthly | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 | $8,374 | $8,583 | $8,801 | $9,019 |
| Hourly | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 | $48.13 | $49.33 | $50.58 | $51.83 |
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 supervisory and/or expert level of the series. Positions provide expert-level analysis and consultation to management and staff regarding the most complex, multidimensional safety, health, and industrial hygiene issues in administering an agency's/higher education institution’s comprehensive employee occupational safety, health, and industrial hygiene program and/or supervises lower level specialists within the series.
Examples of the work
Administers a major program area consisting of comprehensive occupational safety and health services; identifies, evaluates, and controls safety and health hazards and implements strategies to prevent occupational injury and/or illness; Oversees an exposure monitoring plan for toxic and hazardous materials, quality assurance and consulting on monitoring reports, and prioritizes future monitoring needs; Directs or performs environmental sampling including air, water, noise, silica, lead, isocyanates, and other contaminants, interprets results, and compiles reports and recommendations from the data; Conducts or directs others in performing medical surveillance (non-clinical) to assess employee ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in occupational safety and health, safety studies, industrial hygiene, natural science, business or public administration, education or allied fields. AND Three years of professional experience in the administration of occupational safety and health programs. Possession of a license as a Certified Safety Professional granted by the Board of certified Safety Professionals and/or Certified Industrial Hygienist granted by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene will substitute for education. 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.