Archivist 4 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26040
- Class code
- 26040
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Archivist 4 is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26040.
- 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 05/15/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and professional work at the division level in the preservation of 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 plans, directs, coordinates, and evaluates a comprehensive program which involves inventorying, appraising, accessioning, arranging, describing, and preserving documentary materials and archival records. Work involves directing professional employees engaged in archival work to ensure the preservation, availability, and dissemination of manuscripts and records and to stimulate interest in the principles and methods of maintaining and using historic manuscripts and records.
Examples of the work
• Plans and directs the work of professional employees engaged in selecting, arranging, and storing documentary materials and records in the state archives. • Plans and manages the preservation of public records against physical deterioration, theft, or mutilation, and the restoration of damaged materials. • Develops policies and procedures pertaining to the accessioning, preservation, retention, and disposition of records, manuscripts, and documents. • Directs and manages activities pertaining to locating, acquiring, accessioning, and preserving historic documents.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years as an Archivist 3 (commonwealth title); or • Five 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 • Five 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 grad ...
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.