Outdoor Grants Manager pay range
State of Washington · class code 542M
- Class code
- 542M
- Salary range
- 65
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Outdoor Grants Manager is $80,496 to $108,228 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 542M.
- 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
In the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation/Salmon Recovery Funding Board, analyzes, evaluates, and makes recommendations to the board(s) on requests for funding of outdoor recreation, habitat, and/or salmon recovery projects and subsequently manages approved projects. In addition, serves as the assistant section manager.
Examples of the work
Receives and conveys directions from the supervisor to fellow employees and takes the lead in performing and completing tasks assigned by the supervisor; Responsible for assuring project reimbursement requests are valid and in conformance with agency and/or federal regulations; Site inspections: pre-award, interim, final, and compliance site inspections to determine adherence to policies and agreement; Provides recommendations to financial and project amendment requests and prepares necessary documents; Serves as staff to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) and Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC) and any sub-committees or panels established by the Boards; Responsible for ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in public administration, parks and recreation management, landscape architecture, fish or wildlife management, watershed planning, engineering, geography, land use planning, forestry, natural resource management, environmental studies or related field and four years of professional experience in the acquisition, development, or management of recreation, habitat, or conservation lands and resources. A Master's degree in one of the above fields will substitute for one year of experience. Additional qualifying experience will substitute year for year for education. OR One year as an Outdoor Grants Manager, or an Outdoor Resource Planner, or equivalent.
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.