Plant Industry Inspection Technician pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 56401
- Class code
- 56401
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Plant Industry Inspection Technician is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 56401.
- 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 10/05/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is technical work in agricultural and agronomic inspection enforcement programs for the Department of Agriculture. An employee in this job performs basic inspections of agricultural and agronomic products, including nursery stock, greenhouse crops, farm crops, plant products, animal feed, fertilizer, lime, pesticides, seeds, and soil and plant amendments, in an assigned area of the state. Work involves determining compliance with state regulations related to labeling, licensing, plant pest management, product registration, and standards of purity, quality, and sanitation; collecting commodity samples in accordance with existing protocols; responding to consumer complaints concerning agricultural or agronomic products; and recording data and preparing reports of findings. Work is assigned by a supervisor who outlines general instructions and objectives.
Examples of the work
• Collects samples of agronomic products, such as animal feed, fertilizer, liming materials, pesticides, and seeds, in accordance with established protocols. • Collects and submits samples of plants and plant pest organisms for laboratory identification in accordance with established protocols. • Inspects agronomic product establishments, such as feed mills, fertilizer blenders, lime quarries, pesticide businesses, pesticide dealers, pet food manufacturers, and wholesale and retail establishments, for proper agronomic product labeling, proper storage, recordkeeping, and sanitation.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree in the agricultural or biological sciences, which includes 3 credits in chemistry, 3 credits in plant science, and 3 credits in animal science; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes 3 credits in chemistry, 3 credits in plant science, and 3 credits in animal science.
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.