Executive Secretary 2 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 00160
- Class code
- 00160
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Executive Secretary 2 is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 00160.
- 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 11/01/1977.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible staff work as the personal secretary to an agency head. An employee in this class performs a wide variety of secretarial assignments in regulating and controlling the office activities and document flow within the executive office. Work involves relieving the agency head of a variety of details pertaining to the control of the work agenda, provision of information summaries and materials for scheduled meetings, processing of inter and intra departmental written correspondence, and preparation of travel itinerary. Employees control the flow of memoranda for the agency head's signature that originate from the deputies and require a timely response. Work also involves evaluating clerical operations and procedures and recommending and implementing effective changes.
Examples of the work
Develops and implements procedures for expediting the flow of memoranda and other documents to, from and through the executive office by coordinating secretarial activities as they interface in the agency. Screens visitors and phones calls for the agency head; apprises the agency head of all office activity in regard to visitors and callers; and answers inquiries or refers them to appropriate persons for handling. Sorts mail delivered to the executive office and routes it to the proper office; maintains control over incoming and outgoing correspondence; and composes correspondence on a variety of subjects relating to the management of the office.
Minimum qualifications
Five years of progressively responsible experience in secretarial work. Appropriate formal post high school secretarial training may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis up to four years; or Any equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.