Building Trades Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 94005
- Class code
- 94005
- Pay scale group
- ST 03
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- J1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Building Trades Trainee is $36,831 to $54,162 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 94005.
- 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 04/30/2021.
What the state says the job is
This is entry level training work in construction techniques, tools, materials, and processes used in the building trades. An employee in this job participates in an 18 month structured and on-the-job training program designed to develop an understanding and competence in building trades practices, to include carpentry, masonry, roofing, tin smithing, locksmithing, and painting. The training program will be designed for a specific building trade or trades in which an agency is targeting placement. An employee initially performs a limited range of duties with instructions, to include preventative maintenance, routine repairs and installations, and assisting with large or complex assignments. Work assignments become increasingly more complex and are performed with greater independence and variety as learning progresses and knowledge and proficiency are acquired.
Examples of the work
• Participates in a structured, on-the-job training program to develop knowledge and proficiency in one or more of the building trades. • Uses measuring tapes, squares, levels, and other carpentry tools to measure, cut, construct, and install materials according to dimensional requirements and specifications. • Performs routine repairs, installations, and replacements of common building items, equipment, and furniture, such as fencing, drywall, ceiling tiles, hospital beds, cabinetry, signs, windows, screens, partitions, office furniture, mechanical locks, interlocking floor tiles, and doors, based on direction from a higher-level trades employee.
Minimum qualifications
• Eighteen months of maintenance experience in one or more building trades, including carpentry, masonry, roofing, tin smithing, locksmithing, or painting; or • Completion of a three year Vo-Tech training program in construction, construction technology, carpentry, concrete science technology, masonry, roofing, tin smithing, locksmithing, or painting; 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.