Personal Income Tax Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03885
- Class code
- 03885
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Personal Income Tax Specialist is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03885.
- 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 05/01/2006.
What the state says the job is
This is technical work in the examination and analysis of tax returns to ensure compliance and identify taxpayers or corporations suspected of non-compliance or evasion of Personal Income Tax laws in the Department of Revenue. Employees in this job analyze and examine tax returns for S Corporations and Partnerships to determine tax liabilities and identify pass-through improprieties in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices. Work includes analyzing and examining Pennsylvania income returns, informational returns for S Corporations and Partnerships, Pennsylvania Schedules, Resident and Nonresident Schedules of Shareholders/Partners, Apportionment Schedules of other states, and Federal returns to ensure they are prepared in accordance with tax laws.
Examples of the work
Analyzes and examines Pennsylvania Individual Income Tax Returns, Information Returns for Pennsylvania S Corporations and Partnerships, Pennsylvania Nonresident Consolidated Income Returns, Pennsylvania Fiduciary Income Tax Returns, PA Schedules, Resident and Nonresident Schedules of Shareholder/Partners, Apportionment Schedules of other states, and Federal returns to determine tax liabilities and to identify pass-through improprieties in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of experience in the review and examination of Personal Income Tax returns and documents including making tax liability decisions and applying tax laws and regulations and 12 credits in accounting; or Two years of advanced legal clerical experience in the review and analysis of legal documents that include Personal Income Tax documents, applications, reports, recommendations or rulings for compliance with Personal Income Tax laws and regulations and 12 credits in accounting; or An associate’s degree that includes or is supplemented by 12 credits in accounting; or An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes 12 credits in accounting.
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.