Environmental Protection Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 14230
- Class code
- 14230
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Environmental Protection Specialist is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 14230.
- 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 06/01/1989.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work within a specialty area of the waste management program. An employee in this class performs a variety of assignments within one of the waste management specialty areas. Waste management specialty areas include the following: superfund project officer; resource recovery and planning; toxic waste investigation and prosecution; or permit review and coordination. Work requires contact and effective working relationships with a wide variety of persons, including local government officials, legislators, the press and media, federal officials, planning commissions, special interest groups, and the public. Work is assigned in the form of goals, objectives, and priorities. Employees exercise judgement in planning, scheduling, and completing assignments within limits of broad program policies, guidelines, and applicable state and federal regulations.
Examples of the work
Serves as a superfund project officer by managing all activities relating to assigned sites and serving as the primary Departmental technical representative during all phases of site remediation; conducts preliminary assessments and site inspections to determine the extent of contamination, to identify responsible parties, and to assess health risks, and prepares reports of findings; reviews and comments on technical documents prepared by consultants and Departmental staff for assigned sites; participates in the process to rank and prioritize sites to determine their eligibility for funding under state or federal programs; participates in the negotiation of site-specific contracts and cooper ...
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as a journey-level specialist in a waste management program. or Two years of experience in environmental protection and a bachelor's degree with major course work in biology, chemistry, or in a field closely related to environmental protection. A master's degree with major course work in any of the fields closely related to environmental protection may be substituted for one year of the required experience. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which affords the applicant the required knowledges and abilities.
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.