Revenue Forester 2 pay range
State of Washington · class code 176F
- Class code
- 176F
- Salary range
- 48
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Revenue Forester 2 is $52,872 to $71,136 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 176F.
- 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 48 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 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 |
| Monthly | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 |
| Hourly | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 |
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 Department of Revenue, Special Programs Division, under the direction of a senior Revenue Forester, provides professional support to the timber tax collections, audit, compliance and valuations programs by inspecting logging sites and applying knowledge of timber appraisal and forest engineering principles to verify tax liability.
Examples of the work
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; Performs tax discovery investigations in the field of unreported timber harvest and estimates volume harvested, taxable value and estimated tax due; Inspects State and Federal timber sales in the field, gathering appraisal information required for the stumpage valuation program; makes recommendations on the suitabi ...
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as a Revenue Forester 1 or equivalent. OR A Bachelor's degree in forest management, forest engineering, forest economics or forest science and two years of professional experience in timber sales administration, timber tax administration, forest practices enforcement, forest inventory and appraisal, logging engineering, log scaling or timber marketing. 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.