Forest Insect Pest Aide 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 53980
- Class code
- 53980
- Pay scale group
- ST 02
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- J1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Forest Insect Pest Aide 1 is $32,724 to $47,863 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 53980.
- 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 01/01/1980.
What the state says the job is
This is unskilled manual labor work at a forest pest laboratory. An employee in this class performs a variety of unskilled manual laboratory and/or field duties associated with insect rearing and evaluation. Laboratory work involves preparing and dispensing insect diets, dehairing, surface-sterilizing, and incubating insect eggs; placing newly emerged host insects on diet; harvesting host insects at the appropriate stage; exposing host insects to parasites and diseases; collecting emerging parasitic insects; storing and maintaining parasites; packaging parasites for release; cleaning equipment and work areas; and operating and maintaining laboratory equipment, such as a psychrometer, electronic balance, autoclave, dishwasher, blender, and water still.
Examples of the work
Prepares, mixes and dispenses diet into containers to be used in feeding insects. Dehairs, surface-sterilizers and incubates egg masses. Separates insects by size or development stage as instructed and places counted insects in cups. Carries trays with cups of diet and insects to the host and parasite rearing areas of the laboratory. Identifies sexes of insects by physical features and places in a container of cage as instructed, for purposes of mating or parasitizing. Exposes host insects to parasites and diseases. Replenishes food supplies of insects in containers. Drives motor vehicle to field collection areas to collect insects or egg masses or to set traps.
Minimum qualifications
Any combination of experience and/or training which afforded the applicant the above listed required abilities.
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.