Conservation Biologist Manager pay range
State of North Carolina · class code 32000064
- Class code
- 32000064
- Pay group
- NC22
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- North Carolina
- The State of North Carolina published pay range for Conservation Biologist Manager is $75,925 to $148,054 per year.
- North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) keys this classification as class code 32000064.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The OSHR class specification for this class is published by North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR). 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. It was last revised 12/2022.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and supervisory work over a large work unit involved in wildlife (aquatic, marine, and terrestrial) culture, fisheries management, habitat management, forestry, field and laboratory research, disease management, wildlife management, commercial or recreational fishing industry enhancement, and access (such as game land or waterway access) management. Work addresses the health, stability, and control of populations of terrestrial and aquatic wildlife and their habitats. Work may involve management of a significant research or administrative operation that requires extensive coordination of disparate resources. Work involves the technical and administrative supervision of a unit of professional supervisory biologists, biologists and technicians who may be located in work locations remote from the employee.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Thorough knowledge of supervising the planning, organizing, directing of biological studies involving wildlife or fisheries management and thorough knowledge of biological statistics, scientific principles, sampling techniques, GIS technology, and computerized data analysis. Thorough knowledge of state and federal laws pertaining to supervision including FLSA, OSHA, USERRA, ADA, and EEO and thorough knowledge of taxonomic identification procedures, field and laboratory techniques, and the operation of sampling and laboratory equipment and thorough knowledge of wildlife (aquatic, marine, and terrestrial), habitat, wildlife management, wildlife disease, and species propagation. Knowledge of th ...
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree in wildlife or fisheries management, fisheries science, zoology, or a biological science, from an appropriately accredited institution and five years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. <h2
Quoted from the OSHR class specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) publishes this figure in OSHR salary schedules, joined to Class Specifications. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their salary grades come from the Class Specifications, joined to the salary schedule.