Animal /Poultry Health Manager, Agriculture pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 53230
- Class code
- 53230
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Animal /Poultry Health Manager, Agriculture is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 53230.
- 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 02/10/2024.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work in managing the operations of the statewide development and direction of programs for prevention and control of diseases of domestic animals and/or poultry in the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. This position directs the development of programs to prevent, detect, control and eradicate animal and/or poultry diseases. The employee in this class participates with the Bureau Director and other Division Chiefs in the overall development, administration and coordination of all animal and/or poultry disease control programs conducted by the Department. The employee in this class is responsible for providing veterinary medical advice and consultation regarding diseases of domestic animals and poultry to professional and technical employees and to veterinarians in practice.
Examples of the work
Plans and develops statewide programs for the control of dangerous transmissible diseases of domestic animals and/or poultry. Oversees epidemiologic investigation to determine causes and remedies for dangerous transmissible diseases of animals and/or poultry. Provides guidance, coordination and oversight of Department research into the causes and control of diseases of domestic animals and/or poultry. Provides administrative and technical assistance to prepare budgets, to develop program initiatives, to evaluate program emphasis and effectiveness, and to establish cooperative programs with Federal and State governments.
Minimum qualifications
Three years of experience as a veterinarian in food animal or poultry preventive medicine. Graduate veterinary training in epidemiology or pathology may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis. The graduate training must have been gained after attainment of a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree.
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.