Drafter Designer pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10190
- Class code
- 10190
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Drafter Designer is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10190.
- 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 10/03/2000.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced technical work in the preparation of plans, drawings and specifications. An employee in this class prepares a variety of plans, drawings and specifications that require much detail and the application of design skills. Work involves developing or revising design plans for highways, dams, and structures such as buildings, sewage treatment facilities, bridges, mine reclamation projects and fire towers which include floor plans, elevation, roofing, framing, foundation, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing details, footing and substructure, deck, and guide rail details for bridges.
Examples of the work
Develops and designs plans for mine reclamation projects, flood protection projects, stream improvement projects, and structures such as buildings, sewage treatment facilities, bridges, aqueducts, dams and fire towers. Prepares detailed drawings of floor plans, showing type and exact placement of doors, window openings, dimensions of walls, and exact number of brick and block courses. Operates and maintains the Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) workstation in the preparation of drawings. Prepares drawings showing existing and proposed topographic features and structures. Prepares detailed drawings of existing structures from actual field measurements.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as a Drafter; or Two years of experience as an Environmental Engineering Technician, which includes a minimum of one year of engineering, architectural or survey drafting work, including or supplemented by six months of CADD experience or training; or Two years of experience in engineering, architectural or survey drafting work, including or supplemented by six months of CADD experience or training, and an Associate's Degree in the field of engineering technology or Computer Aided Drafting and Design; or An equivalent combination of experience and/or training, including or supplemented by six months of CADD experience or 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.