Educational Research Associate 2 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 24480
- Class code
- 24480
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Educational Research Associate 2 is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 24480.
- 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 01/20/2010.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced professional educational research work in planning and leading complex and policy sensitive research and evaluation studies of programs in the Commonwealth. An employee in this job plans and guides research and evaluation studies that address major departmental policy and program areas. Work includes serving in a lead work role to plan research agendas and study requirements, guide and coordinate studies, evaluate and analyze data collected, and communicate findings and study results that consider the sensitivity and statewide impact of the issues studied. Work involves meeting with policymakers or program managers to translate program or policy issues into research and evaluation studies and define the nature and scope of studies required.
Examples of the work
Provides leadership in the identification and clarification of educational related program or policy issues for study. Confers with departmental managers and administrators to gather information to be used in defining project requirements, the nature and scope of the study, and the analytic and evaluative methodologies that would be appropriate for the issues to be studied. Functions in a lead work capacity in developing research and evaluation design procedures, data collection instruments, and methods of analysis for the conduct of complex research and evaluation studies.
Minimum qualifications
One year as an Educational Research Associate 1; or Four years of professional educational research experience, involving the performance of descriptive research; or Four years of professional research experience; and two graduate level courses each in research methodology, sampling and survey techniques, statistics, advanced statistical analysis (i.e.--multi-variable analysis, factor analysis, path analysis, latent trait or rash modeling), and educational psychology/measurement; 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.