Air Monitoring Equipment Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 17580
- Class code
- 17580
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Air Monitoring Equipment Specialist is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 17580.
- 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 05/29/2025.
What the state says the job is
This is technical work in the installation, servicing, repair, and maintenance of air monitoring equipment in the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). An employee in this job troubleshoots and repairs defective or malfunctioning air monitoring equipment. Work involves performing a variety of duties involving field servicing and repair, major bench repairs, or operation of the central station data collection system. Field work is characterized by performing routine preventative maintenance on equipment such as cleaning equipment, replacing filters, replacing chemicals, visually inspecting equipment, replacing defective components, performing and verifying calibrations on sensors, and checking status of all equipment; troubleshooting and repairing pumps, circuit boards, sensors, data acquisition unit printed circuit boards, data transmission systems, and circuit breakers; adjustin ...
Examples of the work
• Performs a variety of duties in the installation, servicing, repair, and maintenance of air monitoring equipment. • Performs routine preventative maintenance on equipment such as cleaning the equipment, replacing filters, replacing chemicals, replacing gas cylinders, replacing defective components, performing external calibrations on sensors, and checking status of all the equipment. • Troubleshoots and repairs pumps, circuit boards, air monitoring analyzers, data loggers, data transmission systems, automatic power systems, and circuit breakers. • Adjusts flows in all sensors and performs multi-point calibration on all sensors.
Minimum qualifications
• An associate degree in electronics, electrical engineering technology, information sciences and technology, or a closely related field; or • Two years of technical experience testing and repairing electronic or electrical equipment; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Special requirements
• Certain positions require possession of an active motor vehicle license.
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.