Air Quality Engineering Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 14010
- Class code
- 14010
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Air Quality Engineering Specialist is $73,859 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 14010.
- 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 08/27/2026.
What the state says the job is
This is professional air quality engineering work. An employee in this job performs a variety of journey-level air quality engineering work assignments that require the interpretation and application of standard engineering techniques, procedures, and guidelines, using judgment in making minor adaptations and modifications as needed. Work is performed in a regional air quality program or in the central office. Work is characterized by conventional types of air quality engineering plans, permits, investigations, studies, and monitoring/testing assignments, with relatively few complex features and for which there are precedents; or specific and limited portions of broader and more complex assignments.
Examples of the work
• Performs professional air quality engineering work in the review of plans and operating permit applications for less complex air contamination sources, including paint spray booths, internal combustion engines, small boilers, components of larger facilities, and less complicated facility wide permits. • Determines compliance of plans and permit applications with accepted engineering practices and applicable federal and state regulations and makes technical recommendations for agency action. • Calculates potential, actual, and allowable emissions for a wide variety of regulated pollutants.
Minimum qualifications
• Successful completion of the Environmental Engineering Trainee (Commonwealth title) program; or • One year of professional experience in air quality engineering or environmental engineering, and a bachelor’s degree in the field of engineering; or • Two years of professional experience in air quality engineering or environmental engineering, and possession of an active Engineering Intern certificate issued by or acceptable to the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists; or • One year of professional experience in air quality engineering or environmental engineering, and possession of an active Professional Engineer license issued by th ...
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.