Criminal Tax Investigator 2 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 70851
- Class code
- 70851
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Criminal Tax Investigator 2 is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 70851.
- 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 06/01/1989.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced criminal tax investigative work in the Department of Revenue involving the identification, investigation, and prosecution of violators of Commonwealth tax laws and regulations. An employee at this level travels to conduct or lead a team of investigators in major investigations of evasion, failure to file, failure to pay, and other alleged or suspected criminal violations by large multi-state businesses and corporations and/or parent and subsidiary organizations and business enterprises. Cases involving incursion into legitimate business enterprises by organized crime are also investigated at this level. Work includes analyzing financial books and records of highly sophisticated accounting systems of large businesses using indirect accounting methods to determine the tax liability.
Examples of the work
Conducts or leads a team of investigators in the conduct of major investigations to uncover evidence and gather information regarding criminal tax violations by large multi-state businesses and corporations to include parent and subsidiary organizations and may include investigations involving organized crime figures with illegal activities interwoven into legitimate business enterprises. Procures and examines private and public records such as deeds, contracts, bank statements, ledgers, financial statements, profit and loss statements and other financial records to determine sources of assets, method of operations and involvement in criminal tax violations.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as a Criminal Tax Investigator 1; or Two years of criminal tax investigation experience; and a bachelor's degree, including or supplemented by 18 credits in\ accounting. Criminal tax investigation experience involving the use of direct and indirect methods of proving tax liabilities may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Appropriate graduate level education may be substituted for the required experience on the basis of two years of education for each year of experience. Graduate level education and criminal tax experience may not be substituted for the 18 credit hours in accounting.
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.