Manager, Cartographic Services pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10550
- Class code
- 10550
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Manager, Cartographic Services is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10550.
- 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 06/01/1989.
What the state says the job is
This is managerial work in directing a major technical program involved in preparing and reproducing a wide variety of maps and related illustrative materials. The employee in this class is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, prioritizing, and coordinating all activities of a large cartographic drafting and cartographic support services division in the Department of Transportation engaged in the production of a wide variety of maps, charts, and related illustrative materials. Work involves responsibility for developing and meeting division objectives and goals. Direction is provided to a large number of skilled professional and technical personnel through subordinate managers and supervisors. Work is performed within the framework of Department administrative policies and is reviewed for overall program effectiveness.
Examples of the work
Manages the activities of a cartographic division engaged in the compilation, final drafting, editing, and reproduction of large variety and number of base maps for use by inter and intra agency personnel and commercial cartographers. Manages and controls activities of both the cartographic and support services sections whose combined tasks include the manual drafting, scribing, and computer assisted preparation of products such as the county general highway series, township, city, borough, and traffic volume maps, the official transportation map, the official tourist map, the official turnpike map, truckers' guide, bikers' guide, etc. Specialized thematic map products i.e.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience as a Cartographic Manager. or Nine years of technical experience in compiling map data and layouts, drafting, scribing, editing, or the computer production of maps and related illustrative materials including three years in a supervisory capacity; and graduation from high school including or supplemented by high school courses in algebra, plane geometry, and trigonometry. or Eight years of technical experience in compiling map data and layouts, drafting, scribing, editing, or the computer production of maps and related illustrative materials; and an Associate's Degree in surveying, drafting technology or computer aided drafting and design.
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.