Plant Inspection Program Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 56435
- Class code
- 56435
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Plant Inspection Program Specialist is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 56435.
- 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 02/27/2003.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and professional work in coordinating statewide regulatory programs in the Department of Agriculture. An employee in this class performs specialized duties in one or more program areas, such as statewide inspection, licensing, certification, survey, and diagnostic programs to insure program requirements are met and statutes, rules and regulations are followed. Work may involve planning, developing, coordinating, and overseeing activities of permanent and/or seasonal staff; reviewing and approving various certifications and permits to move live plants, insects, pests and products; planning, implementing, and directing statewide programs dealing with certification, survey/detection, diagnosis/identification, or eradication activities for pests of regulatory importance to PA agriculture, with special emphasis given to invasive species and biosecurity; and participatin ...
Examples of the work
Coordinates inspections, survey/detection and other programs carried out by staff in the regional offices and/or headquarters. Functions as State Coordinator for various State/Federal cooperative programs including Gypsy Moth Outdoor Household Article, post entry quarantine, phytosanitary export certification, permits to move living plant pests, Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, Plum Pox Virus Eradication program, biosecurity and/or other quarantine programs. Maintains records of all programs administered. Provides technical guidance and assistance regarding program requirements to internal and external parties.
Minimum qualifications
Two years as a Plant Inspector or Entomologist 2; or Three years as a Plant Pathologist; or Four years professional experience in an agricultural regulatory program and a bachelor's degree in general agriculture, agronomy, plant pathology, entomology, or horticulture. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training, which affords the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
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.