Transportation Planning Specialist 3 pay range
State of Washington · class code 543G
- Class code
- 543G
- Salary range
- 61
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Transportation Planning Specialist 3 is $72,900 to $98,064 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 543G.
- 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 61 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 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 |
| Monthly | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 |
| Hourly | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 |
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
Independently conducts complete planning assignments involving one or more transportation modes and/or one problem area and/or a single discipline under limited supervision. Assignments may involve supervising and training lower level personnel and/or performing as a project team leader on assigned projects.
Examples of the work
Undertakes urban and rural transportation system development projects such as corridor studies, classifications studies, needs for transportation facilities and impact evaluations; Utilizes economic, population, land use and traffic projections to make recommendations for transportation planning, environmental mitigation, Endangered Species Act, and roadside and site design, for rural, regional or urban areas; Plans and conducts research concerning substantive area of professional expertise; May serve as team leader for transportation planning and evaluation projects, biological analysis, Endangered Species or development, implementation or management of roadside, site or mitigation projects ...
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree involving major study in transportation, landscape architecture, environmental or urban, regional or land use planning, engineering, public or business administration, economics or natural or physical sciences and three years' professional transportation experience involving analysis and evaluation of transportation issues and problems. Analysis of environmental issues and problems that involve transportation issues will also be considered qualifying experience. A Master's degree in one of the above fields will substitute for one year of the required 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.