Food Assistance Representative pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 02570
- Class code
- 02570
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Food Assistance Representative is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 02570.
- 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 10/26/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is technical field work in ensuring state and federal funds are used to purchase and distribute food in compliance with appropriate rules and regulations. An employee in this job is responsible for monitoring and providing advisory services to eligible agencies, such as schools, charitable institutions, summer camps, senior citizens centers, childcare centers, and emergency feeding programs within an assigned geographical area. Work involves providing information and advice to agencies regarding participation in state and federally-funded food assistance programs administered by the Department of Agriculture; independently conducting periodic on-site inspections of facilities including product storage, inventory control, and recordkeeping to determine if the facilities are in compliance with state and U.S.
Examples of the work
• Provides information to program participants regarding policies, procedures, and regulations concerning state and federal food assistance programs. • Visits sub-distributors, schools, charitable institutions, summer camps, emergency food providers, childcare centers, commercial distributors, and distribution centers to review records for adherence to food distribution recording procedures and accountability. • Conducts physical inventory and compares to facility records. • Recommends corrective action to sub-distributors or recipient agencies to ensure compliance with USDA program regulations and to correct errors in records or deficiencies in storage.
Minimum qualifications
• Three years of experience in public contact work, which included one year of verifying the accuracy of financial or transactional records; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training, which included one year of verifying the accuracy of financial or transactional records.
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.