Museum Preparator 1, PHMC pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26710
- Class code
- 26710
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Museum Preparator 1, PHMC is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26710.
- 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 10/15/2024.
What the state says the job is
This is technical work in the restoration, preparation, reproduction, construction, installation, and maintenance of museum artifacts and exhibits for fine art, natural science, and history collections. An employee in this job performs technical work in applying carpentry, painting and refinishing, metal-working, and other trade methods to preserve, construct, present, and maintain museum exhibits, artifacts, period reconstructions, and other display components. Work involves operating power tools, hand tools, and machines of the carpentry, metalworking, and painting trades; mixing paints and other materials; and cleaning objects, tools, and machinery. Work also includes packing, transporting, unpacking, storing, and setting up museum exhibits and displays. Work is performed with considerable independence in accordance with well-established procedures and defined plans.
Examples of the work
• Restores, preserves, designs, constructs, assembles, and maintains museum artifacts, period architectural reconstructions, decorations, and other museum and exhibit components. • Operates, maintains, and assists in the repair of machines and tools used in carpentry, painting, finishing, model building, metalworking, and other similar trades. • Reproduces and restores antique wood or iron work. • Participates in the design, construction, and assembly of museum exhibits. • Mixes paints and compounds, strips finish, glues and reglues, repairs veneer, and refinishes and repaints artifacts and exhibit components.
Minimum qualifications
• Four years of experience in the fabrication, installation, and maintenance of museum displays of which two years is required to be at the skilled level; or • Two years of skilled work experience in the fabrication, installation, and maintenance of museum displays and an associate degree in archeology, art, history, museum studies or a related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.