Public Services Trainee for Clerical Services pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 49080
- Class code
- 49080
- Pay scale group
- ST 01
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- N1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Public Services Trainee for Clerical Services is $28,988 to $42,347 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 49080.
- 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 05/01/1977.
What the state says the job is
This is introductory work of a training nature in a clerical field. An employee in this class receives on-the-job training and classroom instruction to acquire the knowledges, skills, and abilities necessary to develop proficiency in a clerical field. Assignments and degree of working independence vary in accordance with the employee's previous work experience, aptitudes, abilities, and level of education achieved. As proficiency is acquired, increasingly difficult duties are assigned. Work is assigned with detailed instructions and reviewed in progress and upon completion for personal and technical development.
Examples of the work
Performs routine clerical duties while participating in classroom and on-the-job training sessions in typing, shorthand, calculating and data recording machine operation, or other clerical services. Attends formal training classes to learn skills in typing, shorthand, or calculating, or data recording machine operations. Stamps, sorts, and files correspondence and other documents. Learns to cut and proofread stencils and to operate a mimeograph machine. Learns to take telephone messages and operate a small telephone switchboard. Substitutes or serves as a desk clerk or receptionist in an office or institution. Opens and sorts mail; maintains files of bulletins and documents.
Minimum qualifications
Successful completion of a training course in the clerical field which has been approved by the using agency and the central personnel agency responsible for evaluating the applicant's credentials.
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.