Museum Preparator 2, PHMC pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 26720
- Class code
- 26720
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Museum Preparator 2, PHMC is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 26720.
- 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 advanced technical work in the restoration, preparation, reproduction, construction, installation, and maintenance of museum artifacts and exhibits for fine art, natural science, and history collections in the state museum and at field sites. An employee in this job performs advanced technical work in 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 researching the characteristics of historical collections; testing a variety of materials and restorative methods to replicate a periodization; and using proper methods, tools, and techniques to produce historically accurate results.
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. • Researches and interprets the chemical nature and physical properties of artifacts; conducts experiments with chemical, cleaning, and adhesive products. • Designs and fabricates tools, models, and missing parts from woods, metals, plastics, glass ceramics, and other natural and synthetic materials.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as a Museum Preparator 1 (Commonwealth title); or • Five years of experience in the fabrication, installation, and maintenance of museum displays of which three years is required to be at the skilled level. or • Three 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.