Executive Accounting Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03070
- Class code
- 03070
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Executive Accounting Specialist is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03070.
- 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 12/19/2024.
What the state says the job is
This is enterprise-level professional accounting work to provide a cost effective and uniform system of accounting and financial controls for government funds. An employee in this job performs professional accounting work by examining, reconciling, analyzing, interpreting, recording, and reporting financial transactions to ensure consistency and compliance at the enterprise level. Work involves applying various accounting methods such as cash, accrual, modified accrual, asset accounting, financial accounting, cost accounting, project accounting, insurance accounting, or investment accounting, and applying generally accepted accounting principles, governmental accounting concepts, and fund accounting concepts to support the preparation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
Examples of the work
• Analyzes difficult financial transactions and prepares financial statements and reports for state or federal funds in compliance with accounting principles. • Analyzes and projects financial data within established policies and procedures. • Maintains accounting records including general and subsidiary ledgers. • Reports errors detected in difficult financial records and recommends potential resolutions. • Maintains expenditure and budgetary control accounts; uses month-end and year-end trial balances to prepare financial reports. • Monitors fund types that are large or complicated, have a high transaction volume, or cross business areas.
Minimum qualifications
• Successful completion of the Executive Accounting Specialist Trainee (Commonwealth title) program; or •One year of professional accounting experience and a bachelor’s degree in accounting; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes one year 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.