Career Advisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 06150
- Class code
- 06150
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Career Advisor is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 06150.
- 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 06/18/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is professional employment services and outreach work in a local workforce development area. An employee in this job provides the full range of employment services to job seekers and/or employers to advance employment opportunities in the commonwealth. Job seeker services involve performing comprehensive assessments to determine job readiness, placement potential, and training opportunities in the local workforce development area, which include planning and conducting in-depth group and individual career counseling to develop or enhance job skills; assisting job seekers to develop and implement individualized employment plans; identifying and correcting customers’ barriers to employment; clarifying career objectives, interests, skills, and abilities; assisting job seekers to develop and reach career objectives using acceptable career coaching strategies; and referring job seekers to ...
Examples of the work
• Coaches job seekers on job skills development, conducting job searches, interviewing techniques, resume-writing, networking, and applying for training and associated funding; and conducts follow-up appointments with customers to monitor progress toward obtaining employment or training. • Develops, in collaboration with job seekers, individualized employment plans by interviewing job seekers to gather information about their employment history, training, education, career goals, employment barriers, interests, skills, and abilities.
Minimum qualifications
• Successful completion of the Career Advisor Trainee (commonwealth title) training program; or • One year of experience interviewing the public to collect and identify customer needs, evaluating eligibility for programs, and researching data to make decisions, and a bachelor’s degree; 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.