Chief, Plant Protection Division pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 56310
- Class code
- 56310
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief, Plant Protection Division is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 56310.
- 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 08/21/2019.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and managerial work in statewide plant protection programs, including entomology, plant pathology, and plant merchant licensing to protect Pennsylvania agriculture and environment from damage caused by plant pests. The employee in this job is responsible for the implementation and enforcement of commonwealth statutes, rules, and regulations pertaining to plant protection, such as the Pennsylvania Plant Pest Act and the Bee Law, and is responsible for the initiation and evaluation of new program efforts in the fields of entomology, plant pathology, and nursery certification.
Examples of the work
• Manages all statewide plant protection programs that include entomology, plant pathology, and plant merchant certification activities. • Supervises managers who direct statewide programs in plant pest and disease survey, diagnostics/identification, apiculture, nursery/dealer licensing program, and compliance and enforcement. • Develops and/or reviews regulations developed for all division programs. • Oversees plant protection investigation activities with other state agencies, representatives of other states, and with the federal government, including review of federal plant pest requests for importation or interstate movement of various organisms associated with plants.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as an Entomology Program Manager or one year as a Plant Pathology Program Manager; or • Five years of professional regulatory experience in plant protection, which included one year of supervisory experience, and a bachelor's degree in one of the biological or agricultural sciences; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training, which included one year of supervision over regulatory plant protection staff.
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.