Aide Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 30001
- Class code
- 30001
- Pay scale group
- ST 02
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- N1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Aide Trainee is $32,724 to $47,863 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 30001.
- 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 10/01/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is trainee level work in providing non-professional direct rehabilitative nursing care and treatment or habilitative care and services for individuals. An employee in this job attends formal classroom training sessions and receives on-the-job training assignments to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to assist nursing staff in the direct and daily care of individuals residing in a state operated facility. Training is achieved through formal classroom instruction, computer-based training, reading assignments, and behavioral observation of individuals. An employee receives on-the-job training in non-professional direct care methods, techniques, and procedures. As knowledge and skills are acquired, further developmental assignments are given in actual work situations. Training and work assignments are performed under the close supervision and review of higher-level staff.
Examples of the work
• Completes formal classroom and on-the-job training. • Instructs, guides, and assists individuals with activities of daily living, such as dressing, bathing, and oral hygiene. • Records daily observations of individuals’ physical or behavioral changes due to reactions to medication, personal events, or other circumstances. • Serves meals and assists individuals with eating. • Assists individuals with walking and transports non-ambulatory individuals by wheelchair, stretcher, gurney, or other means. • Lifts and positions non-ambulatory individuals. • Assists with basic first aid measures, such as applying small adhesive bandages.
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.