Applications Developer Administrator pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 01525
- Class code
- 01525
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Applications Developer Administrator is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 01525.
- 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 01/01/2010.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and consultative work in the analysis, planning, design, programming, and maintenance of computer applications. An employee in this job is responsible for analytical, developmental, evaluative, administrative, and highly advanced consultative work in the design and maintenance of highly complex agency systems. Work at this level normally involves managerial responsibility for planning, directing, and scheduling the work of subordinate staff engaged in highly advanced technical or supervisory work involving the analysis, planning, design, programming, and maintenance of applications.
Examples of the work
Plans, directs, schedules, and evaluates the work of a technical staff involved in the analysis, planning, design, development, testing and debugging, maintenance, and documentation of highly complex computer applications to fulfill the needs of the client's business system. Manages highly complex applications development projects by determining the scope; preparing cost and schedule estimates; documenting project requirements, objectives, anticipated benefits, and costs; ensuring that required technical skills and staff resources are available to complete the project within established time frames; monitoring and reporting on progress against the established plan; resolving critical issues; ...
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Senior Applications Developer; or Four years of information technology experience in applications development or applications maintenance, and an associate’s degree in any information technology field; or Six years of information technology experience that includes four years of experience in applications development or applications maintenance; or Two years of information technology experience in applications development or applications maintenance, and a bachelor's degree in any information technology field; or An equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.