Tax Information Specialist 3 pay range
State of Washington · class code 172G
- Class code
- 172G
- Salary range
- 51
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Tax Information Specialist 3 is $56,952 to $76,608 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 172G.
- 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 51 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 | $56,952 | $58,392 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 |
| Monthly | $4,746 | $4,866 | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 |
| Hourly | $27.28 | $27.97 | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 |
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 Taxpayer Services Division of the Department of Revenue, supervises three or more tax information specialists.
Examples of the work
Supervises lower level Tax Information Specialists; Responds to inquiries and provides information to department staff and taxpayers via correspondence; the Internet, and telephone; Works with audit and compliance supervisors to discover tax reporting problems; Prepares manuals for selected industries illustrating the application of tax law to specific situations, giving examples of tax liability; Assists in the preparation of in-house training manuals, conducts training classes for department staff; Drafts new and revised WAC's and excise tax bulletins; Performs other work as required.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as a Tax Information Specialist 1. OR One year as a Tax Information Specialist 2 OR A Bachelor’s degree in business or public administration, accounting, public finance or closely allied field AND two years of professional experience in tax administration, tax auditing or tax collection. Additional qualifying experience may substitute, year for year, for education.
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.