Museum Educator 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26250
- Class code
- 26250
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Museum Educator 1 is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26250.
- 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 museum-related educational work. An employee in this class performs professional public educational and informational work in presenting museum educational programs consisting of classroom study courses, lectures, audio-visual displays, planetarium programs and similar instructional programs based upon museum and field site collections, and activities, and museum-related research activities. Work involves assisting a higher level museum educator in devising class and program schedules, preparing lesson plans, scripts, or other forms of presentation, and presenting the material through lectures, classroom instruction, or other presentation techniques. Work includes conducting the basic research to develop information about museum collections, exhibits, or activities to form the basis of museum educational and interpretive programs.
Examples of the work
Participates in the development of schedules of classes, lectures, mobile exhibits, planetarium shows, and other activities related to museum and field site collections and programs. Assists higher level museum educators in writing scripts and story lines, taping shows, preparing visual and audio-visual aids, operating and maintaining audio-visual equipment, planning and designing bulletin boards, and performing research related to instructional and interpretive activities.
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience in museum-related educational and interpretive work, and a bachelor's degree. Graduate study which included or was supplemented by museum studies courses recognized by the American Association of Museums or a museum internship may be substituted for experience on a year-for- year basis. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which would afford the applicant the Required Knowledge, 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.