Social Service Specialist 1 pay range
State of Washington · class code 351O
- Class code
- 351O
- Salary range
- 52
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Social Service Specialist 1 is $58,392 to $78,504 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 351O.
- 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 52 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 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 |
| Monthly | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 |
| Hourly | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 |
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
This is the entry level in-training classification for the professional social services series. Performs intakes, assessments, and/or investigations of abandonment, abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, personal exploitation or self-neglect of vulnerable adults or abuse and neglect of children. Clients served are children and/or families in which risk of child abuse or neglect are minimal or adults with disabilities resulting from varying degrees of incapacity, or vocational, social, cultural or health impairments that hinder economic or residential independence.
Examples of the work
Performs the full range of specific service functions, such as: interviewing children, parents, adults and others; case assessment, formulation and implementation of service plans; legal intervention; Performs investigations and risk assessments of children and vulnerable adults, including; abandonment, abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, and self-neglect in the community and in licensed and certified settings; Participates in staff conferences and required in-service training that is program area specific, department wide, or between agencies; Participates in in-house case staffing; Participates in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency staffing; Studies and applies principles and techniqu ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree or higher in social services, human services, behavioral sciences, criminal law/justice, or an allied field. Note: Employees must successfully complete the formal training course sponsored by their division within eighteen months of their appointment. 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.