Museum Curator History 2 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26170
- Class code
- 26170
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Museum Curator History 2 is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26170.
- 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 06/01/1977.
What the state says the job is
This is full professional curatorial work 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 curatorial work of a full professional nature in caring for the collections in any one of the state museums or historic sites devoted to Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, History or Science, Industry and Technology; or performs work of comparable difficulty and complexity in advising and assisting field museum or historic site personnel in curatorial functions related to one or more collections in the above categories. Work involves collecting, identifying, classifying, preserving, cataloging, storing, and utilizing artifacts and objects of historic and/or aesthetic significance or interest.
Examples of the work
Performs tasks at the full professional level, such as collecting, accessioning, recording or cataloging, restoring, preserving, and utilizing artifacts or objects of historic and/or aesthetic interest or significance, in managing a collection in any one of the state museums or historic sites devoted to the History of Decorative Arts, History of Fine Arts, History, or Science, Industry, and Technology; or performs work at an equivalent level in advising and assisting personnel at various field museums or historic sites in the above curatorialfunctions related to one or more historic sites in the above curatorial functions related to one or more collections in the above categories.
Minimum qualifications
One year as Museum Curator, History l; or One year of curatorial work in any one or more of the fields of History or Decorative Arts, History of Fine Arts, History, or History of Science, Industry, and Technology, and a master's degree in American History, including or supplemented by either a museum studies course at the graduate level recognized by the American Associate 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.