Environmental Emergency Response Manager pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 75943
- Class code
- 75943
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Environmental Emergency Response Manager is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 75943.
- 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 05/07/2009.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and managerial work directing the emergency response program in a Department of Environmental Protection regional office. An employee in this job plans, directs, implements, coordinates and evaluates regional environmental emergency response program activities, and directs staff and resources during environmental emergencies, such as natural disasters, toxic or hazardous materials spills and releases, chemical fires, floods and incidents of terrorism. Work involves conducting program planning and assessing program effectiveness, selecting and training emergency response team members, supervising one or more environmental emergency response coordinators, and authorizing the purchase of detection and personal safety equipment.
Examples of the work
Plans, schedules, implements, directs, coordinates and evaluates all program activities involving the emergency response program in one of the six regional offices in the Department of Environmental Protection, including establishing regional program goals, objectives, priorities, policies and procedures. Directs the deployment of regional staff in response to natural and manmade disasters. Assesses health, safety and environmental hazards during emergencies and recommends to officials measures for the protection of the public, protection of emergency workers and the containment, collection, mitigation and removal of contaminants released into the environment.
Minimum qualifications
Three years as an Environmental Emergency Response Coordinator; or Five years of professional environmental protection experience, and a bachelor’s degree in an engineering or scientific field related to environmental protection; 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.