Highway Designer pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10310
- Class code
- 10310
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Highway Designer is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10310.
- 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 01/01/1992.
What the state says the job is
This is professional highway design work in designing highway projects. An employee in this class prepares or performs technical design review of complete sets of plans for highway projects, such as limited access multi-lane with or without interchanges on new or existing location, two lanes on new location, two lane reconstruction and extensive realignment of approaches to bridge improvement projects, or prepares or reviews portions of the most complex projects, such as multi-lane, heavy traffic routes with interchanges and complicated environmental, economic, and right-of- way constraints. Work is performed with Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) instruments or through the use of conventional techniques and methods and involves following complex design procedures in performing assignments.
Examples of the work
Using CADD instruments, develops design plans for complete highway projects, such as resurfacing routes with base and drainage reconstruction or lane widening with complicated environmental and right-of-way constraints, or portions of the most complex highway projects, such as multi-lane, heavy traffic routes with interchanges and complicated environmental, economic, and right-of-way constraints; computes highway geometry; computes grads and vertical curves, determining earthwork and related calculations and detailing.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Highway Draftsman- Designer. or One year of professional experience in highway design work including six months involved CADD operation, and a Bachelor's Degree in civil engineering, or a closely related field. or Three years of professional experience in highway design work including six months of CADD operation, and an Associate's Degree in civil engineering, drafting, or design technology. or Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training.
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.