Environmental Specialist 1, DMVA pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 14234
- Class code
- 14234
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Environmental Specialist 1, DMVA is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 14234.
- 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 05/29/2025.
What the state says the job is
This is beginning-level professional environmental compliance work in the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA). An employee in this job performs environmental compliance monitoring to ensure department properties and activities comply with environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Work involves conducting facility and grounds inspections, analyzing data to determine environmental impacts from activities, applying discretion to identify compliance issues and determine appropriate corrective action plans, and drafting reports of inspection findings. Work includes researching, recommending, and implementing changes to agency policies, processes, plans, and proposed actions; conducting environmental surveys; and testing sites for hazardous substances.
Examples of the work
• Inspects and monitors department facilities and grounds for compliance with federal, state, local, and military environmental laws, regulations, policies, and rules. • Reviews and analyzes environmental data, determines environmental impact, and recommends and implements changes to department policies, processes, plans, and proposed actions to improve compliance. • Researches and analyzes data for compliance with federal programs including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
Minimum qualifications
• Successful completion of the Environmental Specialist Trainee, DMVA (Commonwealth title) program; or • One year of professional environmental compliance or environmental planning experience and a bachelor’s degree in the physical, biological, or environmental sciences; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Special requirements
• All employees are required to obtain an active certification in 24-hour Hazardous Waste Operations, Procedures and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training within six months of hire and successfully complete an 8-hour annual HAZWOPER refresher training thereafter.
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.