Automotive Body Repairer pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 93080
- Class code
- 93080
- Pay scale group
- ST 04
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- J1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Automotive Body Repairer is $41,506 to $61,927 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 93080.
- 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 08/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is skilled work performing body repair and painting on vehicles and construction and maintenance equipment. An employee in this job assesses vehicle damage; determines the methods and materials needed to address the damage; and repairs or replaces and restores exterior and interior automotive components. Work involves disassembling and reassembling automotive components and welding, brazing, and soldering damaged metal parts. Work includes preparing, cleaning, patching, filling, and sanding surfaces and applying epoxy, fiberglass compound, primer, paint, and related coatings to restore surfaces to specification. Work may include assigning and demonstrating body repair and painting related tasks to other trades and maintenance employees during the completion of specific work assignments.
Examples of the work
• Restores components and surfaces damaged from rust to include rust removal, filling and patching corroded areas, and sanding and painting surfaces. • Replaces or rebuilds damaged metal components using brazing, welding, or soldering processes. • Prepares surfaces by dissolving, stripping, scraping, grinding, brushing, and sanding them using heat guns, sandpaper, sandblasters, scrapers, chemical paint solvents, vacuum sanders, and related tools and materials. • Removes dents and replaces fenders, doors, broken windshields, side and rear glass, and other exterior components. • Repairs or replaces torn, creased, scratched, and broken vehicular body parts.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years of semiskilled experience in automotive body repair and painting in a commercial operation; or • Completion of a high school vocational-technical program in automotive body repair from an accredited vocational trade school; or • Completion of a post-secondary curriculum in automotive body repair from an accredited technical school.
Special requirements
• All positions require possession of an active motor vehicle license. • Certain positions are required to either possess at the time of hire, or obtain within the probationary period, an active CFC-12 Refrigerant Recycling Certificate or a 134A Refrigerant Recycling Certificate.
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.
Nearby classes in Pennsylvania
Automotive Body Repairer in other states
| State | Minimum | Maximum | Per year at full time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | $2,281 | $3,649 | $27,370 to $43,792 |
Each state publishes its own range for a classification with this exact title. Duties, grade structures and bargaining units differ between states, so read each class page before comparing.