Corrections Employment and Vocational Assistant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 47130
- Class code
- 47130
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Employment and Vocational Assistant is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 47130.
- 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 01/07/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is para-professional work in providing employment and skills development opportunities to inmates in a state correctional facility. An employee in this job performs limited technical duties assisting the facility’s Corrections Employment and Vocational Coordinator. Work involves constructive face-to-face interviews with inmates to review employment opportunities and job assignments to facilitate the vocational/technical training and employment of the inmates, to resolve payroll problems, and interaction with other facility staff related to those areas.
Examples of the work
• Reviews reports and recommendations prepared by treatment staff to determine if inmates are suitable for assignment to specific types of jobs. • Identifies inmates who meet established criteria for clearance for jobs outside the perimeter, and researches inmates' files and discusses their potential for consideration for outside clearance. • Assists the Corrections Employment and Vocational Coordinator in assigning cells to inmates and making changes to cell assignments, and produces housing rosters. • Assists the Corrections Employment and Vocational Coordinator in assigning inmates to jobs and writing job descriptions to create new work assignments for the employment of inmates.
Minimum qualifications
• Three years of clerical 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.