Epidemiology Program Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 34475
- Class code
- 34475
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- P4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Epidemiology Program Specialist is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 34475.
- 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 08/30/2019.
What the state says the job is
This is professional investigative and analytical work in public health or environmental health epidemiology. An employee in this job conducts or provides support and technical assistance to active disease, hazard, or threat investigations or studies at the state or local level to ensure compliance with regulations and established procedures. Work includes monitoring and maintaining active surveillance systems; conducting site visits; collecting data; and facilitating investigations and data sharing between health care providers, laboratories, and state, federal, and local agencies. Work also includes explaining the application of program policies, standards, procedures, and objectives to health investigators and data collectors within the Department of Health, county/municipal health agencies, health care providers, and others.
Examples of the work
• Coordinates with team members and community partners to identify public health problems related to infectious diseases, chronic diseases, maternal and child health, bioterrorism/emergency response, environmental health, injury, occupational health, oral health, substance abuse, toxic substances, or mental health. • Organizes data from surveillance systems, investigations, literature reviews, toxicological data, or other sources. • Identifies gaps in available data and develops methods to gather additional data. • Reviews completed case reports, questionnaires, and data abstraction forms collected by investigators to determine need for additional information or to prepare reports.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience performing public health or environmental health investigations, and a bachelor's degree that includes or is supplemented by six credits in epidemiology, environmental health, statistics, or research; or • A master's degree that includes or is supplemented by six credits in epidemiology, environmental health, statistics, or research.
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.