Accounting Assistant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03000
- Class code
- 03000
- Pay scale group
- ST 04
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Accounting Assistant is $41,506 to $61,927 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03000.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. 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 11/01/1973.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible clerical-accounting work involving the application of bookkeeping principles and practices. An employee in this class performs standard bookkeeping duties in recording, reviewing, and processing financial records and documents. Work involves maintaining bookkeeping records including posting, and proving, classifying accounting document prior to posting, or preparing prescribed financial statements and reports. Work may include supervision over a small clerical staff, but in the absence of supervisory responsibilities, the difficulty of the work is correspondingly greater. Work may also involve typing, the use of standard office equipment, and the performance of related clerical tasks. Work methods are governed in detail by established account classifications and procedures.
Examples of the work
PERFORMED: Posts or supervises the posting of accounting data to ledgers, books, registers, and journals; makes routine adjustments to accounts; prepares daily summary and monthly accumulative reports; takes routine trial balances and prepares routine and/or proceduralized financial reports. Maintains expenditure and budgetary control accounts and prepares necessary reports relating to account status. Audits claims in disbursing offices and processes approved claims for payments. Receives remittances for licenses, taxes, and other fees; issues appropriate receipts; posts to original books of entry; reconciles bank accounts for a variety of funds at the end of a fiscal period.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience performing bookkeeping or clerical accounting work; or An Associate Degree in accounting or business administration including or supplemented by six credits of accounting.
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.