Park Manager Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 54310
- Class code
- 54310
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Park Manager Trainee is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 54310.
- 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 06/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is specialized trainee-level work in park operations administration and management. An employee in this job receives formal and on-the-job training to develop understanding and competence in managing, operating, and maintaining state parks and directing related recreational and educational activities. Work involves assisting an experienced park manager with physical plant administration, operation, and maintenance; visitor services and safety; and environmental education. Work includes providing assistance in maintaining park grounds, structures, facilities, and equipment; directing concession, recreational, and educational activities to ensure optimum use of facilities; and implementing state park policies.
Examples of the work
• Participates in formal and on-the-job training to learn state park operations management, facility and grounds maintenance, recreational planning and facility scheduling, environmental education, and the principles and practices of employee supervision. • Assists with determining purchasing and budgetary needs, preparing purchase and budget requests, and monitoring expenditures according to the approved budget. • Assists with preparing contracts for park services, such as garbage disposal, latrine pumping, plumbing, and electrical maintenance services.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor's degree in parks and recreation, forestry, engineering, natural sciences, landscape architecture, or a closely related field; or • Two years of paraprofessional or technical experience providing administrative, maintenance, visitor, safety, or environmental education services in a public park or recreation area; and an associate degree in parks and recreation, forestry, engineering, natural sciences, landscape architecture, or a closely related field; or • Four years of paraprofessional or technical experience providing administrative, maintenance, visitor, safety, or environmental education services in a public park or recreation area; or • An equivalent combination of experie ...
Special requirements
• All positions require possession of an active motor vehicle license. • All employees must pass psychological testing (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)). Failure to pass this test is a basis for removal from the position.
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.