Criminal Tax Investigator Supervisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 70853
- Class code
- 70853
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G5
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Criminal Tax Investigator Supervisor is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 70853.
- 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 04/22/1998.
What the state says the job is
This is supervisory work in the Department of Revenue involving the identification, investigation, and prosecution of violators of Commonwealth tax laws and regulations. An employee in this class is responsible for performing supervisory criminal investigation work in major investigations of evasion, failure to file or pay legitimate taxes due, and other alleged or suspected criminal violations by individuals, businesses, and corporations. Work involves planning, organizing, and assigning investigations, and reviewing financial analysis and audits conducted by subordinate investigators to determine whether the party being investigated is in compliance with tax laws and regulations.
Examples of the work
Supervises investigators in the conduct of major investigations to uncover evidence and gather information regarding criminal tax violations by individuals, businesses, and corporations, and may include investigations involving organized crime figures with illegal activities involved with legitimate business enterprises. Plans, organizes, assigns, and determines work priorities for a staff of Criminal Tax Investigators. Reviews investigative methods including collecting evidence, conducting surveillance, interviewing witnesses, corresponding with informants, and reconstructing accounts and records in order to detect and acquire evidence of tax or property tax/rent rebate violations.
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as a Criminal Tax Investigator 2; or Four 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.