Land Research Survey Technician pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 12271
- Class code
- 12271
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Land Research Survey Technician is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 12271.
- 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 08/10/1993.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced technical work in land ownership research, and serving as a member of a survey corps performing computations, and field data processing for property survey and preliminary, right-of-way, reconnaissance, location, traverse, bridge, construction borrow pit, final geodetic, and aerial surveys. Employees in this class perform land research in county offices (Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Tax Assessments, Prothonatory) to obtain land ownership information. Research includes constructing title chains, examinations of wills and estates, constructing assessment histories, abstracting deeds and obtaining non-legal land office warrant information. Once land ownership is determined, employees in this class, using conventional and state of the art surveying equipment, perform a full range of tasks on a survey and land research corps.
Examples of the work
Performs record research in appropriate county office (Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Tax Assessment, Prothonatory) to obtain boundary ownership information. Performs all survey team functions, i.e., automatic level operator, transit operator, data collector operator, electronic total station operator, prism operator, chain person, rod person, etc., using both conventional and electronic equipment. Assists Crew Chief in contacting private surveyors of subject tract or adjacent tracts to obtain information. Drafts connected maps of compiled deed plotting and warrant information to be used in searching for field evidence.
Minimum qualifications
One year as an Engineering Technician involving technical land surveying experience including the research of land ownership and operation of both standard and electronic surveying instruments. or Three years of technical land surveying experience which included research of land ownership and operation of both standard electronic surveying instruments, and training or experience which affords a working knowledge of high school level algebra, plane geometry or trigonometry. or Any experience and training which affords the applicant the Required Knowledges, Skills and Abilities.
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.