Revenue Forester 1 pay range
State of Washington · class code 176E
- Class code
- 176E
- Salary range
- 43
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Revenue Forester 1 is $47,004 to $62,880 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 176E.
- 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 43 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 | $47,004 | $48,048 | $49,296 | $50,412 | $51,600 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 |
| Monthly | $3,917 | $4,004 | $4,108 | $4,201 | $4,300 | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 |
| Hourly | $22.51 | $23.01 | $23.61 | $24.14 | $24.71 | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 |
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
As a trainee in the Department of Revenue, Special Programs Division, performs entrance-level professional assignments, in support of timber tax collections, audit, and compliance.
Examples of the work
Under direct supervision performs on-site field audits of timber harvest units to verify information reported on timber tax returns such as logging conditions, road building problems, volume and grade of timber harvested, and other factors which affect tax liability; makes corrections as required and submits report to supervising forester for review and inclusion in auditor's final report to the taxpayer; Learns to perform tax discovery investigations in the field of unreported timber harvest and estimates volume harvested, taxable value and estimated tax due; In a training capacity: inspects State and Federal timber sales in the field, gathering appraisal information required for the stumpa ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in forest management, forest engineering, forest economics or forest science and one year of professional experience in timber sales administration, timber tax administration, forest practices enforcement, forest inventory and appraisal, logging engineering, log scaling or timber marketing. Additional qualifying experience will substitute, two years, of experience for one year of education. Equivalent education/experience. Possession of a valid driver's license may be required.
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.