Human Resource Management Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 05323
- Class code
- 05323
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Human Resource Management Trainee is $48,802 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 05323.
- 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 02/28/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is a twelve-month structured and specialized training program serving as entry into professional human resources work for the commonwealth. An employee in the Human Resource Management Trainee (HRMT) job participates in formal and on-the-job training, workshops, and project teams to develop an understanding of commonwealth HR functions and their relationship with enterprise and agency organizations and program operations. Employees receive individualized training and practical work assignments from different rotational supervisors during scheduled rotations. These rotations occur in diverse HR disciplines and settings to expose trainees to a broad variety of issues and activities. As an employee gains experience, the projects and work assignments become progressively more difficult.
Examples of the work
• Participates in formal training sessions, seminars, workshops, and on-the-job work experiences to introduce and familiarize the trainee with HR programs and functions. • Completes assignments for various HR functions to develop an understanding of HR processes, the Personnel Rules, Collective Bargaining Agreements, and other program guidelines and their general application. • Reads Executive Orders, Management Directives, Administrative Circulars, the Civil Service Act and Rules, and Collective Bargaining Agreements and discusses them with the designated supervisor or training coordinator for interpretation and application to various assignments.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and 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.