Veterans Benefit Assistant pay range
State of Washington · class code 163S
- Class code
- 163S
- Salary range
- 38
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Washington
- The State of Washington published pay range for Veterans Benefit Assistant is $41,820 to $55,596 per year.
- Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) keys this classification as class code 163S.
- 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 38 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 | $41,820 | $42,780 | $43,836 | $44,856 | $45,924 | $47,004 | $48,048 | $49,296 | $50,412 | $51,600 | $52,872 | $54,204 | $55,596 |
| Monthly | $3,485 | $3,565 | $3,653 | $3,738 | $3,827 | $3,917 | $4,004 | $4,108 | $4,201 | $4,300 | $4,406 | $4,517 | $4,633 |
| Hourly | $20.03 | $20.49 | $20.99 | $21.48 | $21.99 | $22.51 | $23.01 | $23.61 | $24.14 | $24.71 | $25.32 | $25.96 | $26.63 |
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
Assists a Veterans Benefit Specialist and/or a Field Office Manager in advising, counseling, and assisting veterans, their family members, and beneficiaries to obtain benefits granted under Federal or State laws.
Examples of the work
Interviews and counsels veterans, family members, and beneficiaries on rights, privileges, and benefits provided under existing laws; Advises contacts of applicability of numerous and varied laws, methods needed to substantiate eligibility and methods and procedures used in filing applications for claims; provides information on benefits payable under old and new laws and consequences of selecting appropriate entitlement; Obtains various supporting documents required for completion of claims and researches sources of documents and substitute documents which may be acceptable; Maintains a system of contacts on a one-to-one relationship with all departmental representatives of veterans at loca ...
Minimum qualifications
A bachelor's degree in counseling, business administration, public administration, social science or closely allied field OR Four years of experience in social or human resource services, public relations, or public contact work. College-level course work in business administration, public administration, counseling, social science, or closely allied field may substitute, year for year, for up to three years of the required years of experience specified above. Qualifying volunteer experience is acceptable. Equivalent education/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.