Transportation Planning Specialist 4 pay range
State of Washington · class code 543H
- Class code
- 543H
- Salary range
- 65
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Transportation Planning Specialist 4 is $80,496 to $108,228 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 543H.
- 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 65 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 | $80,496 | $82,440 | $84,528 | $86,688 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 | $100,488 | $102,996 | $105,612 | $108,228 |
| Monthly | $6,708 | $6,870 | $7,044 | $7,224 | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 | $8,374 | $8,583 | $8,801 | $9,019 |
| Hourly | $38.55 | $39.48 | $40.48 | $41.52 | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 | $48.13 | $49.33 | $50.58 | $51.83 |
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
As a project leader, plans and conducts advanced transportation studies or investigations which require direction of project teams charged with analyses and recommendations for one or more problem areas, involving one or more transportation modes, and usually involving more than one discipline; or performs critical program evaluations; or supervises transportation planning data collection, analysis and summarization operations. OR As a registered professional landscape architect, performs professional landscape architectural work that constitutes the practice of landscape architecture as defined by RCW 18.96 for the development, implementation or management of the roadside program.
Examples of the work
Meets with public and private agencies to explain difficult transportation problems and provides recommendations for actions; Develops new methodologies and techniques for transportation planning; Serves as specialist on interdisciplinary teams formed to solve complex transportation problems; Plans and supervises studies or serves as leadworker for broad individual studies and planning efforts; Serves as departmental representative with other federal, state and local agencies in determining analytical models, methods or procedures to be utilized in conducting evaluative studies; Determines impact of various legislative proposals upon financial structure and availability of funds for various ...
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 four 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.