Highway Draftsman Designer pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10301
- Class code
- 10301
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Highway Draftsman Designer is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10301.
- 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 technical work in the design and preparation of a wide variety of moderately complex highway plans, maps, and similar drawings. An employee in this class performs technical duties which follow prescribed methods and procedures, and involve the application of technical skills and techniques for the completion of a wide variety of drafting and moderately complex design assignments with professional guidance from a Highway Designer. Work is performed using Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) instruments or conventional techniques and methods and involves preparing and checking mathematical calculations, reducing field notes preparatory to drafting or design, and setting grade, elevation, curves, and drainage parameters using mathematical formulas. Employee may function as a lead worker over lower level technicians preparing tracings, calculations, or straight-line drawings.
Examples of the work
Prepares highway plans from field survey notes under the direction of a highway designer, performs design of less complex highway projects or assists in the design of complex highway projects from preliminary engineering through final plan preparation. Performs or checks computations; lays out grade lines and computes gradients for less complex projects; adjusts grade to meet existing conditions and other controls; performs lead work over lower level technicians in preparing computation of earthwork and material quantities and plotting of roadway and channel templates on cross sections.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Highway Drafter. or Three years of experience in a variety of drafting assignments, one of which shall have been in highway drafting, including six months CADD experience or training, and graduation from high school. or Two years of experience in highway drafting and detailing assignments including six months of CADD experience or training 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.