Corrections Records Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 47613
- Class code
- 47613
- Pay scale group
- CO 35
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- H1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Records Specialist is $49,010 to $98,728 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 47613.
- 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 03/01/2022.
What the state says the job is
This is inmate records work that involves the creation, maintenance, and retention of inmates’ criminal history and identification records in a state correctional facility with diagnostic and classification authority, and includes care, custody, and control of inmates. An employee in this job is responsible for compiling, reviewing, evaluating, and validating inmate records. Work involves gathering documentation from a variety of sources in response to requests for information; compiling information and preparing correspondence, reports, and other documents; processing incoming and outgoing inmate transfer records; and maintaining up-to-date inmate records. Work may also include photographing and fingerprinting inmates and computing informal sentence computations. Supervision including care, custody, and control is exercised over inmates.
Examples of the work
• Compiles inmates’ criminal history and identification records by interviewing inmates, making inquiries to local and out-of-state law enforcement agencies, and contacting committing courts. • Processes inmate population movements to and from a facility to include assembling all pertinent records from various departments within the facility and arranging for proper disposition of personal effects. • Directs the movement of inmates around the receiving/discharge areas, to include into and out of holding cells, for the purpose of conducting records work. This work may involve the use of keys to unlock and lock the cells in a specific area of the facility.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as a Records Specialist 1 (commonwealth job title); or • Three years of clerical or correctional custodial experience including one year in a correctional facility; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training, which includes one year of clerical or correctional custodial experience in a correctional facility.
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.