Forest Lookout pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 54010
- Class code
- 54010
- Pay scale group
- ST 02
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- J1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Forest Lookout is $32,724 to $47,863 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 54010.
- 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 01/01/1972.
What the state says the job is
This is routine seasonal forest fire protection work in maintaining a forest fire watch from an observation tower. Employees in this class are responsible for detecting, locating and reporting forest fires from a lookout tower. Stations are operated only during periods of relatively high danger of forest fire occurrence. Work requires constant vigilance in order to promptly detect fires and dangerous fire conditions. Assignments are received in the form of general and specific instructions at the beginning of the season and work is checked by occasional visits by a superior warden and by analysis of reports.
Examples of the work
PERFORMED: Watches from a forest observation tower in order to detect fires; locates fires by use of binoculars, alidade and maps; and promptly reports fires and their location to superiors by radio or telephone. Makes and records weather observations. Performs unskilled and semi-skilled construction and maintenance work on towers, buildings, roads, telephone lines and cleans and repairs fire fighting tools. Keeps records and makes reports. Performs related work as required.
Minimum qualifications
Such training as may have been gained through completion of the eighth school grade.
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.