Revenue Forester 3 pay range
State of Washington · class code 176G
- Class code
- 176G
- Salary range
- 55
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Revenue Forester 3 is $62,880 to $84,528 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 176G.
- 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 55 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 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 |
| Monthly | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 |
| Hourly | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 |
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, serves as an area forester for a multi-county area with responsibility for managing forest tax assessment and compliance by harvesters of private and public timber. Identifies and investigates evaded or avoided forest tax. Determines potential tax discovery and liability. Assists in the distribution and approval process for cities and counties for growth management permits. Works closely with city and county prosecutors when timber is involved in criminal activity or functions as a valuation specialist.
Examples of the work
Serves as an area forester for a multi-county area with responsibility for managing forest tax assessment and compliance by harvesters of private and public timberlands; deals with the largest and most complex accounts attempting to confirm the accuracy of the species, volume, and grades of timber reported on tax returns and the engineering problems encountered in road building and logging on each site; Functions as a valuation specialist working within the Stumpage Valuation unit; collects, evaluates and analyzes timber and log sales transaction evidence and logging cost data for the purpose of developing stumpage value schedules used in reporting private timber taxed; investigates State, F ...
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as a Revenue Forester or equivalent; or a Bachelor's degree in forest management, forest engineering, forest economics, or forest science and three years of professional experience in forest tax administration, timber sales administration, timber tax administration, forest practices enforcement, forest inventory and appraisal, logging engineering, log scaling or timber marketing.
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.