Audit Specialist 3 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03720
- Class code
- 03720
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Audit Specialist 3 is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03720.
- 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 02/01/1985.
What the state says the job is
This is developmental professional work in the managerial auditing of organizations, programs, activities and functions for the Office of the Budget. An employee in this class performs analytical, developmental and evaluative work in the examination, evaluation and reporting on the accountability and effective management and utilization of funds administered by Commonwealth agencies and recipient organizations and in the development and negotiation of substantive recommendations to adjust or modify operations to insure compliance with Federal, state or departmental laws, regulations and policies and improve the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
Examples of the work
Performs analytical, developmental and evaluative work in the examination, evaluation and development of recommendations and reports concerning the accountability and effective management and utilization of funds administered by Commonwealth agencies and recipient organizations subject to the state's examination. Summarizes audit findings, develops substantive recommendations for remedial action, improved operations and procedures, areas for cost reduction, etc., and negotiates management's acceptance.
Minimum qualifications
One year as an Audit Specialist 2; or Three years of professional auditing experience and a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by eighteen [18] credits in accounting and auditing; or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which included the required eighteen [18] credits in accounting and auditing.
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.