Business Analyst 3 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 01053
- Class code
- 01053
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Business Analyst 3 is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 01053.
- 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 05/25/2007.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced analytical lead or supervisory work in meeting business needs through the identification and development of improved information technology (IT) systems. An employee in this job serves as a business process and IT system functionality expert for a highly complex IT system and a liaison between business users and the IT staff performing system coding. The focus of this work is on leading or supervising the identification and documentation of existing business processes, working with business users to develop and implement improved business processes for their application to an IT system in support of agency program policy, and coordinating resources to implement and support business and system changes.
Examples of the work
Leads or supervises lower level business analysts in collecting, analyzing, and documenting business rules, processes, and legislation. Leads or supervises business requirements gathering sessions with business and technical resources for complex system development projects. Leads or supervises the analysis of legislation or other business documentation (i.e., RFPs) to determine necessary IT system changes or changes to business processes required to meet the objectives of an agency initiative. Works with business users to develop and implement improved business processes for their application to an IT system to execute agency program policy.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Business Analyst 2; or Two years of business process analysis experience and a bachelor’s degree; or Six years of business process analysis experience; 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.