Executive Accounting Manager pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03085
- Class code
- 03085
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Executive Accounting Manager is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03085.
- 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 09/30/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is supervisory and administrative enterprise-wide professional accounting work to provide a cost effective and uniform system of accounting and financial controls to ensure accountability of government funds. An employee in this job directs the examination, reconciliation, analysis, interpretation, recording, and reporting of financial transactions to ensure consistency and compliance at the enterprise level. Work involves directing the application of various accounting methods such as cash, modified accrual, accrual, asset accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles accounting, project accounting, insurance accounting, or investment accounting. An employee must also be able to apply generally accepted government accounting standards and fund accounting concepts to support the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).
Examples of the work
• Directs a unit or team of Executive Accounting Specialists engaged in enterprise-wide budgetary control, accounting, and financial reporting and presentations that provide the foundation for an effective and uniform system of accounting and financial controls to ensure the integrity of commonwealth reports. • Develops and implements plans for the organizational unit and agencies served to ensure that performance measures are available and benchmarks are established to manage performance. • Works with the upper management in the Office of the Budget (OB), Treasury, Revenue, and other central agencies to improve commonwealth processes and report on results of operations.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as an Executive Senior Accountant; or • Three years of professional accounting experience and a bachelor’s degree in accounting; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes three years of professional accounting experience and completion of 24 college credits in accounting.
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.