Forest Insect Pest Aide 2 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 53990
- Class code
- 53990
- Pay scale group
- ST 03
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- J1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Forest Insect Pest Aide 2 is $36,831 to $54,162 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 53990.
- 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 semi-skilled manual work as a lead worker at a forest pest laboratory. An employee in this class is responsible for leading lower level employees in the manual activities of a laboratory work unit or a field crew involved in parasite rearing, host rearing, diet preparation, insect isolation, and/or collecting data from field plots. Work involves maintaining daily and monthly production records, reviewing production records to ensure proper production levels, determining if insects are parasitized, assisting technical and professional employees during experiments, and ensuring that equipment and rooms are properly maintained. Work also involves determining the number of employees needed to maintain production levels, training new employees, assigning work, and reviewing work for completeness.
Examples of the work
Recommends the number of people needed in a work unit. Trains employees by showing them what to do or assigns new employees to an experienced employee for training. Assigns work to employees in specific areas such as diet preparation, insect feeding, insect sorting by size, insect placement in appropriate containers, equipment cleaning, and work area cleaning. Maintains daily and monthly reports on the number of diets prepared, insects produced, insects parasitized, and the number of insects collected. Determines if insects are parasitized or diseased by visual observation, x-raying, or dissecting. Receives field samples and organizes them according to location.
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as a Forest Insect Pest Aide 1, or any equivalent combination of experience and/or training which afforded the applicant with the above listed required knowledge and 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.