Transportation Planning Specialist 5 pay range
State of Washington · class code 543I
- Class code
- 543I
- Salary range
- 69
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Transportation Planning Specialist 5 is $88,788 to $119,460 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 543I.
- 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 69 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 | $88,788 | $91,104 | $93,288 | $95,676 | $98,064 | $100,488 | $102,996 | $105,612 | $108,228 | $110,952 | $113,736 | $116,544 | $119,460 |
| Monthly | $7,399 | $7,592 | $7,774 | $7,973 | $8,172 | $8,374 | $8,583 | $8,801 | $9,019 | $9,246 | $9,478 | $9,712 | $9,955 |
| Hourly | $42.52 | $43.63 | $44.68 | $45.82 | $46.97 | $48.13 | $49.33 | $50.58 | $51.83 | $53.14 | $54.47 | $55.82 | $57.21 |
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
Supervises a functional organization responsible for ongoing programs and reports to a WMS Band 3, Transportation Planning Supervisor 1 equivalent or higher classification; or performs as a consulting expert with assignments regarding Statewide application involving total systems or programs, applying one or more disciplines, with responsibility for several significant transportation problem areas. As a registered landscape architect, performs senior level professional landscape architectural work that constitutes the practice of landscape architecture as defined by RCW 18.96.
Examples of the work
Supervises the analysis and projection of traffic data from a variety of sources; Supervises, plans and administers various transportation planning grants and programs for local jurisdictions; Supervises the provision of public transportation planning technical assistance to regional and local jurisdictions; Supervises professional specialists engaged in a variety of population, land use, research, environmental impact assessment, and other planning studies, and roadside and site development, implementation and management; Performs complex assignments in connection with State and Federal programs directed at encouraging and assisting in the development of local, regional and State transporta ...
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 five 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. OR One year as a Transportation Planning Specialist 4.
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.