IES Database Administrator 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 01879
- Class code
- 01879
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for IES Database Administrator 1 is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 01879.
- 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 12/27/2005.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced technical work in database administration for the Commonwealth’s SAP enterprise system. An employee in this job is responsible for managing SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system databases and database management technology for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s SAP enterprise system. Work involves installing, configuring, and upgrading all SAP Enterprise Resource Planning database applications software to include Business Warehouse (BW); planning and implementing database expansion, reorganization, and conversions; maintaining and implementing backup and recovery procedures; monitoring and providing quality control for database usage, disk storage usage and tape storage usage; monitoring, tuning, and ensuring quality control for database access performance; and creating and maintaining Enterprise-wide data dictionary objects.
Examples of the work
Creates, maintains, and modifies physical databases including the database storage structures and database objects ensuring that appropriate links exist and that keys are established to provide processing efficiency. Designs centralized and distributed database structures consistent with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system architecture and other organizational applications, operations, and networking goals and objectives.
Minimum qualifications
Three years of experience in the analysis, design and maintenance of databases in overall support of database administration and an associate’s degree in Computer Science; Management, Computer or Business Information Systems or a closely related field; 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.