Transportation Planning Technician 3 pay range
State of Washington · class code 544J
- Class code
- 544J
- Salary range
- 53
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Transportation Planning Technician 3 is $59,760 to $80,496 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 544J.
- 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 53 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 | $59,760 | $61,332 | $62,880 | $64,512 | $66,072 | $67,704 | $69,348 | $71,136 | $72,900 | $74,748 | $76,608 | $78,504 | $80,496 |
| Monthly | $4,980 | $5,111 | $5,240 | $5,376 | $5,506 | $5,642 | $5,779 | $5,928 | $6,075 | $6,229 | $6,384 | $6,542 | $6,708 |
| Hourly | $28.62 | $29.37 | $30.11 | $30.90 | $31.64 | $32.43 | $33.21 | $34.07 | $34.91 | $35.80 | $36.69 | $37.60 | $38.55 |
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
Under general direction, performs skilled technical duties in the field involving routine analysis of planning data or leading data collection teams; or in the office performs classification, summarization and routine analysis of planning data; OR, in Motor Carrier Services (MCS) performs the work of the TPT2 class and is a lead over lower level TPTs.
Examples of the work
In the field leads in state highway and county road inventories, traffic counting, truck weight, speed, photolog, pavement evaluation and other similar studies. May perform individual assignments in traffic counting or speed monitoring involving high traffic volumes and/or complex traffic patterns; In the office may lead or be responsible for updating, maintaining, assimilating and analyzing roadway geometrics, mileage, road life, accidents, control sections, traffic volumes and characteristics; develop basic input for pavement thickness determination and perform basic traffic analysis for location in design purposes; Performs other work as required.
Minimum qualifications
Three years as a Transportation Planning Technician 2 or equivalent classification. OR An Associate degree in civil engineering technology, surveying, drafting, computer science or other closely related field, or equivalent vocational technical program consisting of at least 1200 instructional hours in the above fields and three years of experience performing basic technical engineering or transportation data collection work equivalent to a TPT 2. OR A Bachelor's degree in urban planning, geography, transportation, engineering or computer science. 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.