Data Analytics Specialist 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10601
- Class code
- 10601
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Data Analytics Specialist 1 is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10601.
- 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 04/08/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is analytical and professional work applying varied quantitative analysis and computer programming methods to manage, prepare, analyze, and visualize data for the purpose of identifying trends, solving analytical problems, optimizing performance, or furthering business intelligence. An employee in this job identifies, evaluates, and applies quantitative analysis and programming methodologies to business problems, and proposes and develops data-driven solutions. Work includes completing assignments in all phases of a data science project from its inception as a business analysis problem to its completion and deployment as an operational analytic application or solution.
Examples of the work
• Translates business requirements into analytic project specifications to include data set acquisition, data preparation, quantitative methodology, computer programming, or technology requirements. • Researches, evaluates, and applies data management, quantitative analysis frameworks, and programming and visualization tools to address specific data problems or build application functionality. • Develops logic and code to clean, merge, and prepare structured and unstructured data in order to manage its size and variability, and to identify omissions. • Monitors predictive algorithms and models for reliability, investigates issues, and makes recommendations for modification.
Minimum qualifications
• Successful completion of the Data Analytics Trainee program (commonwealth title); or • Two years of professional quantitative analytical experience utilizing data preparation, statistical analysis, or data visualization software programs and a bachelor’s degree in statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, data science, economics, actuarial science, geographic information systems (GIS), or a related STEM field (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics); Thirty (30) graduate credits in data analytics or a closely related field may be substituted for one year of the required 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.