Mining Engineering Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 13610
- Class code
- 13610
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Mining Engineering Specialist is $73,859 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 13610.
- 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 03/30/2007.
What the state says the job is
This is professional mining engineering work in an environmental regulatory, miner safety or mine reclamation program. An employee in this job performs a variety of journey-level mining engineering work assignments that require the interpretation and application of standard engineering techniques, procedures and guidelines, using judgment in making minor adaptations and modifications as needed. Work is assigned in a planning, design, construction, regulatory or conservation program area in the extractive minerals industry, such as mine reclamation or surface mine permitting; or in the underground miner safety program. Work is characterized by conventional types of mining engineering plans, investigations, studies, designs and permits, with relatively few complex features and for which there are precedents; or specific and limited portions of broader and more complex assignments.
Examples of the work
Performs professional mining engineering work in the review of applications for permits, plans or variances to determine if the proposed action conforms to engineering standards and federal and state laws and regulations. Investigates complaints directed toward active or abandoned mining facilities by conducting site visits, interviewing individuals, performing engineering analyses and preparing technical reports outlining findings and recommendations.
Minimum qualifications
Successful completion of the training program for Mining Engineering Trainee; or One year of professional experience in mining engineering, and a bachelor’s degree in mining engineering; or Two years of professional experience in mining engineering, and possession of a valid Engineer-in-Training certificate issued by or acceptable to the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists; or One year of professional experience in mining engineering, and possession of a valid Professional Engineer license issued by the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists.
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.