Fisheries Biologist 3, PFBC pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 14770
- Class code
- 14770
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Fisheries Biologist 3, PFBC is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 14770.
- 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 04/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced professional work in the field of fisheries biology. An employee in this job manages a designated regional fisheries area or a statewide fisheries program. Employees managing a regional fisheries management area or aquatic restoration unit plan, implement, and monitor fisheries-related activities and programs in their assigned region. Duties involve developing and implementing fisheries management or species recovery plans; administering budgets for activities and programs; collecting and analyzing data to assess, manage, and recover aquatic resources and fisheries; determining appropriate field and office protocols for sampling and assessing area resources; and documenting recommendations and analyses in scientific reports.
Examples of the work
• Develops and directs the implementation of fisheries management or species recovery plans for an assigned region to protect, conserve, and enhance aquatic resources and fishing opportunities. • Analyzes surveys, studies, reports, and investigation results and develops appropriate management strategies for affected aquatic resources and fisheries. • Develops and manages an operating budget for program area. • Conducts research and analysis on laboratory and field techniques, methods, and procedures used in aquatic resource management and develops or revises them as necessary.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Fisheries Biologist 2, PFBC (commonwealth title); or • Two years of professional experience conducting fish studies, fish investigations, or fish research and a bachelor’s degree in a biological science that includes or is supplemented by 12 college credits in fish biology, fisheries management, fish population dynamics, ichthyology, limnology, fish ecology, aquatic ecology, watershed ecology and management, wetland ecology and management, herpetology, freshwater entomology, fish culture, fish physiology, fish pathology, biometrics, or other courses closely related to fisheries science or aquatic ecology.
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.