Parks Planner 2 pay range
State of Washington · class code 539R
- Class code
- 539R
- Salary range
- 57
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Parks Planner 2 is $66,072 to $88,788 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 539R.
- 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
Performs journey‑level investigation and analysis of present and potential State park facilities, designs parks, and recommends for or against acquisition or development of proposed park sites.
Examples of the work
Conducts reconnaissance of potential park sites for possible acquisition; Prepares master plans (including minimum, optimum, and extended development plans) for potential park sites using information from maps, photos, needs of area, park users studies and original‑destination studies; Prepares ownership maps and land inventories using information from governmental and private sources; Develops and prepares detail site plans which include complete landscape and architectural plans and sketches, and specifications for land or underwater facilities and structures; Develops sign plans for new parks and recommends plans to the sign committee; modifies and updates the agency sign manual; recommen ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree involving major study in park planning, park administration, landscape architecture, land planning, engineering, or other major which included course work in park planning, park administration, or related field and two years of professional experience in park planning, landscape architecture, engineering, or similar professional work in land planning. Graduate training in the above fields may be substituted, year for year, for the required 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.