Executive Senior Accountant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03073
- Class code
- 03073
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Executive Senior Accountant is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03073.
- 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 enterprise-wide highly advanced 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 performs enterprise-wide professional accounting work by examining, reconciling, analyzing, interpreting, recording, and reporting financial transactions to ensure consistency and compliance at the enterprise level. Work involves 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, and also applies Governmental Accounting concepts and Fund Accounting concepts to support the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).
Examples of the work
• Prepares financial statements and reports for independent boards and commissions, agencies, the state legislature, the Governor's budget book, and the commonwealth's CAFR. • Assesses and improves processes used across the commonwealth. • Analyzes the most complex financial transactions and prepares financial statements and reports for state or federal funds. • Analyzes and projects complex financial data within established policies and procedures. • Maintains the commonwealth's budgetary, accounting, and reporting systems; serves as an enterprise business owner for financial matters.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as an Executive Accounting Specialist; or • Two years of professional accounting experience and a bachelor’s degree in accounting; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes two 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.