Data Analytics Specialist 3 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10603
- Class code
- 10603
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Data Analytics Specialist 3 is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10603.
- 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 highly advanced professional and consultative work developing data analytic strategies and capabilities for an agency. An employee in this job is responsible for assessing an agency’s data analytic needs; identifying data acquisition, data quality, analytic applications, and data science technology strategies; and linking these strategies to business goals. Work involves leading the end-to-end work flow of complex data science projects and solutions across multiple program areas from inception as a business analysis problem to completion and deployment as an operational analytic application or solution; researching, evaluating, and implementing agency data science technologies, techniques, processes, and policies; overseeing the creation, maintenance, modification, accuracy, and reporting of data models, analyses, and processes that generate key statistics and metrics for agency ...
Examples of the work
•Directs the development, modification, implementation, and maintenance of an agency’s most critical analytic models that involve key statistics and metrics driving leadership decision-making and strategy. •Conducts gap analyses comparing the current state of agency analytics capabilities and infrastructure to data goals and develops recommendations to include optimization of existing technology within current computing environment and assessing new data science technologies in partnership with IT.
Minimum qualifications
•One year as a Data Analytics Specialist 2 (commonwealth title); or •Four 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.