Agronomic Products Inspector pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 51511
- Class code
- 51511
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Agronomic Products Inspector is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 51511.
- 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 05/13/1999.
What the state says the job is
This is professional, investigative and enforcement work in an assigned geographic area involving inspection of all agronomic products including pesticides, feeds, pet foods, fertilizers, lime, soil conditioners and seeds for the Department of Agriculture. An employee in this class is responsible for interpreting Commonwealth laws, rules and regulations associated with various regulatory programs to include these agronomic products. Work involves responsibility for inspecting various types of agronomic product establishments for proper quality control and good manufacturing practices; collecting samples of agronomic products for routine laboratory analysis and suspected adulterants; investigating and resolving complaints involving agronomic products and their labeling.
Examples of the work
Inspects agronomic product establishments such as feed mills, fertilizer blenders, lime quarries, seed producer, pesticide manufacturer and applicators, pesticide dealers, pet food manufacturers and agronomic products wholesale and retail establishments for proper storage, record keeping, sanitation, employee training, worker safety and proper agronomic product labeling. Investigates and resolves complaints involving pesticide misuse and pesticide worker protection in all types of pesticide establishments to prevent human and environmental harm; and conducts investigations in suspected cases to determine the validity of and/or eliminate the cause of the human or environmental harm.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience in the inspection of agronomic products and a bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences or biological sciences or in a closely related field. or Four years of experience in the inspection of agronomic products and an associate degree in agricultural sciences or biological sciences or in a closely related field. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which affords an applicant the Required Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities. Appropriate graduate level training may be substituted for the experience on a year- for-year basis.
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.