Corrections Construction Equipment Operator Instructor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 98960
- Class code
- 98960
- Pay scale group
- CO 37
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- H1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Construction Equipment Operator Instructor is $53,036 to $107,095 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 98960.
- 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 05/01/1977.
What the state says the job is
This is powered construction equipment operating instruction in the vocational training of inmates at a state correctional institution or facility. An employee in this class provides on-the-job training and shop instruction for the vocational training of inmates as powered construction equipment operators. Work involves the instruction of inmates in the practices, methods, and procedures of powered construction equipment operations by demonstration, explanation, and close supervision during training and work assignments. Employee is responsible for the custody and discipline of inmates during training and work assignments. Work is received in the form of work orders which may be accompanied by drawings, sketches, or construction drawings.
Examples of the work
Instructs inmates in the standard practices, methods, and procedures of operating powered construction equipment using such items as diagrams, charts, illustrations, and shop manuals and plans; demonstrates and explains the methods, procedures, materials, and tools used in operating powered construction equipment such as cranes, shovels, tractors, graders, back-hoes, and front end loaders used to excavate and grade right-of-way for roads, streets, and drainage ditches and to erect structural steel and pour concrete.
Minimum qualifications
Completion of an approved apprenticeship in the operation of heavy equipment; or Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training which includes one year of journeyman level work.
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 CO schedule.