District Environmental Specialist, Transportation pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 28419
- Class code
- 28419
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for District Environmental Specialist, Transportation is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 28419.
- 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 10/01/1990.
What the state says the job is
This is supervisory or specialist professional work involving responsibility for a full-range District environmental program in the Department of Transportation. In conjunction with local, regional, state, and federal programs, an employee in this class provides for the proper enforcement of environmental laws, plans, policies, and procedures during highway and transportation improvement project planning, design, construction, and maintenance phases. Work involves supervision and/or actual performance of environmental and related engineering analyses, the review and/or preparation of environmental assessments of air quality, traffic noise prediction and mitigation, wildlife habitat, threatened or endangered species, wetland, agricultural lands, properties of cultural, historic and archeological resources, land use changes, socio-economic, and other environmental factors.
Examples of the work
Reviews transportation plans, programs and projects for consistency with environmental laws, regulations, policies and procedures. Develops and implements District environmental policies and procedures. Determines the scope and schedule for environmental and related engineering analyses. Reviews consultant technical and cost proposals. Develops priorities and schedules for environmental clearances so that District letting schedules can be met. Reviews proposed environmental laws and regulations for possible impact on agency objectives. Performs environmental analyses and prepares environmental reports. Approves/rejects environmental clearance documents.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as an Environmental Planner 2; or Three years of progressively responsible professional environmental management, environmental engineering, or environmental analysis experience and a Master's Degree in one of the environmental science or engineering fields; or Six years of progressively responsible professional environmental management, environmental engineering or environmental analysis experience; or Any 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.