Electrical Engineer Consultant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 13430
- Class code
- 13430
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Electrical Engineer Consultant is $88,020 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 13430.
- 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 04/28/2007.
What the state says the job is
This is professional consultative electrical engineering work. An employee in this job performs advanced developmental and consultative electrical engineering work in support of a statewide public works engineering function. Work requires developing solutions to design or general construction problems, which require advanced or innovative electrical engineering principles and methods. An employee in this job is an electrical engineering expert, and serves as a project coordinator for construction projects contracted to professional, licensed engineers or designed in-house and is required to advise outside architectural consultants, construction managers, construction inspectors and agency officials on an ongoing basis for a wide range of complex construction projects.
Examples of the work
Prepares or reviews plans, specifications, and cost estimates designed by private professionals or in-house staff for technical soundness, economy and adherence to appropriate standards, regulations and codes. Reviews electrical drawings, reports, catalog cuts, shop drawings, material samples, computations, and cost comparisons. Conducts review conferences with design professionals and using agencies and discusses project scope, observations and conclusions. Reviews the budget estimates and expenditures during the various stages of development to insure adequate funding.
Minimum qualifications
Two years as an Electrical Engineer 2; or Four years of professional electrical engineering experience which required work on any structural electrical system.
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.