Civil Engineer (General) pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 1112G
- Class code
- 1112G
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Civil Engineer (General) is $73,859 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 1112G.
- 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 04/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is journey-level professional civil engineering work. An employee in this job performs a variety of journey-level civil engineering work assignments that require the interpretation and application of standard engineering techniques, procedures, and guidelines, using judgment in making minor adaptations and modifications as needed. Work involves a variety of engineering duties associated with the design, construction, or maintenance of roads, bridges, buildings, flood control projects, water or sewage treatment facilities, structural life support systems and designs, and other structural designs for commonwealth facilities, mine reclamation projects, recreational structures and facilities, or other civil engineering projects, transportation planning, traffic control of highways, construction materials testing or geotechnical sampling, analysis, and design.
Examples of the work
• In any civil engineering environment, applies journey-level engineering principles and practices to the design, construction, or maintenance of roadways, bridges, buildings, flood control projects, mine reclamation projects, recreational structures and facilities, or other civil engineering projects. • In any civil engineering environment, applies engineering principles and practices to the investigation of subsurface conditions, geotechnical testing or sampling, and identification of soil and rock materials. • In any civil engineering environment, prepares plan details and specifications for foundations, slopes, drainage, and other technical related features.
Minimum qualifications
• Successful completion of the Civil Engineer Trainee training program (commonwealth title); or • One year of civil engineering experience in the appropriate specialty, and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a closely related engineering discipline; or • Four years of civil engineering experience in the appropriate specialty, and an engineer-in-training certificate issued by or acceptable to the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists, and an associate’s degree in civil engineering technology or a closely related engineering discipline; or • Five years of civil engineering experience in the appropriate specialty, and an Enginee ...
Special requirements
• Certain positions will require possession of a valid driver’s license.
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.