Museum Curator History 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26160
- Class code
- 26160
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Museum Curator History 1 is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26160.
- 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 12/01/1978.
What the state says the job is
This is entry level professional curatorial work in a museum or historic site in any one or more of the fields of History of Decorative Arts, History of Fine Arts, history, or History of Science, Industry and Technology. An employee in this class performs professional curatorial work in caring for and exhibiting one or more collections in any one or more of the state museum sections devoted to Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, History, or Science, Industry and Technology; or performs work at an equivalent level in assisting field museum or historic site personnel in curatorial functions related to a variety of collections in the above categories. Work involves routine duties in the collection, accession, preservation, cataloging, storing, and utilization of artifacts and objects of historic and/or aesthetic significance or interest.
Examples of the work
Performs tasks involved in the normal procedures and methods of managing a museum collection in the fields of Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, History, or Science, Industry and Technology, such as collecting, accessioning, labeling, recording or cataloging, storing, packing, restoring, preserving, and utilizing artifacts or objects having historic and/or aesthetic significance or interest. Assists a higher level curator or the supervisor, or provides advice and direction to preparators and artists, in planning, designing, and preparing exhibits in the specialty area(s).
Minimum qualifications
One year of museum curatorial experience in the care and exhibiting of museum collections of historical significance, and a bachelor's degree; or A master's degree in American History, Fine Arts or related fields, or one or more of the Sciences, which included courses dealing with historical treatment of aesthetic and/or social and/or scientific, industrial, and technological developments in America; and including or supplemented by either a museum studies course at the graduate level recognized by the American Association of Museums or a museum internship. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which would afford 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.