Forest Nursery Operations Manager pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 54416
- Class code
- 54416
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Forest Nursery Operations Manager is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 54416.
- 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 06/01/1989.
What the state says the job is
The employee in this class directs, through subordinate managers, the planning, scheduling, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of program activities involving the planting, cultivation, harvesting, and shipping of forest tree seedlings at the forest tree nurseries; and the production of picnic tables at the Penn Nursery Wood Shop; and aluminum-backed and wood-routed signs at the Sign Shop at Penn Nursery. Work involves determining and setting production goals, objectives, and priorities; coordinating the scheduling of activities and the assignment of resources to ensure that production goals, objectives, and priorities will be met.
Examples of the work
Directs, through subordinate managers, the planning, scheduling, development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of program activities involving the planting, cultivation, harvesting and shipping of forest tree seedlings at the forest tree nurseries; the design, manufacture, and shipping of aluminum-backed and wood-routed signs at the Penn Nursery Sign Shop; and the design, manufacture, and shipping of picnic tables and other wood products at the Penn Nursery Wood Shop. Determines and sets production goals, objectives, and priorities; and meets with subordinate managers to discuss production needs and to ensure they understand the production goals, objectives, and priorities.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as a Forest Nursery Manager; or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which affords the applicant the required knowledges, skills, and abilities.
Special requirements
Possession of a valid motor vehicle operator's license, of the proper class for the vehicles operated, as issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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.