Fisheries Biologist 4, PFBC pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 14780
- Class code
- 14780
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Fisheries Biologist 4, PFBC is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 14780.
- 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 professional managerial work in directing a fisheries program area within the Bureau of Fisheries. An employee in this job is responsible for planning and directing a fisheries management, environmental services, aquatic habitat enhancement and restoration, fish production services, or a species recovery program. Work involves planning and directing the management of fisheries management areas to ensure compliance with PFBC goals; planning and directing the aquatic impact assessment and response program in environmental services; planning and directing statewide habitat management programs and fish passage and habitat restoration; or planning and directing fish production services regarding a variety of complex issues impacting fish production and fish health.
Examples of the work
• Develops fisheries policies for the assigned program area. • Directs a comprehensive fish production service program documenting the quality of effluents, monitoring and treating fish disease, providing specialized fish production regimes, supporting fish production research, and providing scientific expertise to fish production staff. • Directs a statewide program for permit application reviews for proposed encroachments likely to impact aquatic resources. • Directs a statewide program for threatened and endangered species, species of special concern, or species of greatest conservation need; and provides scientific expertise on invasive aquatic species.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Fisheries Biologist 3, PFBC (commonwealth title); or • Three years of professional experience conducting fish studies, fish investigations, or fish research, including one year of supervisory experience, 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; or An eq ...
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.