Public Health Assistant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 30280
- Class code
- 30280
- Pay scale group
- ST 03
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- N1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Public Health Assistant is $36,831 to $54,162 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 30280.
- 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 12/01/1981.
What the state says the job is
This is non-professional work in providing personal care services to homebound patients, or in assisting a professional nurse in clinics and child health conferences. An employee in this class is responsible for performing specified duties in clinics and child health conferences to relieve the nursing staff of numerous non-professional tasks, or for visiting homebound patients to provide selected personal care services. Employees assisting in clinics secure admission data from patients, sterilize equipment, maintain current stock supplies, pack nurses' bags, and, in general, assist the nurses in the orderly operation of clinics and health conferences. Home visits to the sick will be made in instances where the services of a professional nurse are not required.
Examples of the work
Assists in the orderly operation of clinics and child health conferences by receiving patients, securing admission data an patient's medical history, directing patient flow in examining and treatment rooms, and performing other tasks to relieve the nursing staff of non-professional duties. Provides selected personal care services to homebound patients such as helping patients in and out of bed, helping patients with exercises prescribed by appropriate professional personnel, helping patients with bath, care of mouth, skin, and hair, and performing such incidental household services as are essential to the patient's care at home, and are necessary to prevent or postpone institutionalization.
Minimum qualifications
Graduation from high school; or equivalent certification or formal 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.