Corrections Library Assistant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 25350
- Class code
- 25350
- Pay scale group
- ST 04
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Library Assistant is $43,247 to $61,927 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 25350.
- 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 10/13/2017.
What the state says the job is
This is para-professional work monitoring the daily operations of a library in a state correctional facility. An employee in this job is responsible for providing general and law library services at a state correctional facility. Work involves monitoring and providing guidance to inmate workers and patrons to ensure they are adhering to agency, facility, and library policies and assisting them in locating, acquiring, and using library resources such as recreational, legal, and reentry materials. This work includes book circulation, catalog classification, interlibrary loan, maintenance, and inventory of library materials. An employee in this job assumes responsibility for the therapeutic care, custody, and control of assigned inmate workers and patrons. Work is performed with considerable independence under the general supervision of a Corrections Librarian.
Examples of the work
• Oversees and provides guidance to Inmate Legal Reference Aides, who assist the inmate population with law library services, which includes accessing legal statutes and cases, identifying and locating legal forms used for approaching the courts, and providing the procedures and addresses for filing forms with the appropriate courts. • Monitors legal law library to ensure inmate patrons are performing appropriate legal work and working within agency, facility, and library policies. • Arranges for the acquisition of materials not available in the library by locating a source and arranging for interlibrary loan or photocopy and mailing of materials.
Minimum qualifications
• Two 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.