Photolithographer 1 pay range
State of Washington · class code 204J
- Class code
- 204J
- Salary range
- 45G
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Photolithographer 1 is $56,952 to $66,072 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 204J.
- 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 45G in the General Service Salary Schedule. The range pays 7 steps, and this class starts at step G rather than at the bottom of the range; a step is normally earned on a periodic increment date, not negotiated.
| Basis | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 |
| Monthly | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 |
| Hourly | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 |
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
Prepares plates for offset printing and operates camera for line and half-tone negatives. Operates photographic equipment to reproduce black and white line and continuous tone film negatives and positives, and photographic paper prints.
Examples of the work
Operates process and copy cameras to produce black and white continuous tone and line copy to required scale utilizing automatic film processor; Operates contact printing frames to produce duplicate film and paper negatives or positives from original drawing, utilizing automatic film and paper processor; Operates photographic enlargers to produce black and white photo prints from all size and type of negatives; Processes all types and kinds of photographic roll and sheet film; Operates a variety of machines such as plate exposure machine, head liner, varityper, MT/ST, MT/SC, camera, etc., in preparing materials for reproduction on offset press; Develops film and makes positive and negative p ...
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience in commercial or industrial photography, reprographics or photolithography. OR 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.