Archivist 3 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26030
- Class code
- 26030
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C5
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Archivist 3 is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26030.
- 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 05/31/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional supervisory work preserving documentary materials and digital and non-digital archival records relating to the state’s heritage and to the operation of state and local governments within the commonwealth. An employee in this job supervises professional Archivists working in a portion of a statewide archival program to ensure the preservation, availability, and dissemination of historic documentary materials and records and to stimulate interest in the principles and methods of maintaining and using historic manuscripts and records.
Examples of the work
• Performs archival work in planning and conducting programs to ensure the preservation, availability, dissemination, and interest in historically accurate information. • Interprets and applies the principles of historic writing and research to a specialized archival program. • Plans and develops local government records surveys, archival processing, or similar activities and provides advice, guidance, and consultation to state and local government officials and agencies on record retention, storage, and preservation issues.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years as an Archivist 2 (commonwealth title); or • Three years of professional experience at a formally established archival program performing appraisal and disposition, arrangement and description, or reference services work and a master’s degree in archival science, history, library information science, or information science that includes six graduate credits in archival science; or • Three years of professional experience at a formally established archival program performing appraisal and disposition, arrangement and description, or reference services work and a master’s degree in archival science, history, library information science, or information science that includes three gr ...
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.