Records Specialist 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 47611
- Class code
- 47611
- Pay scale group
- ST 04
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Records Specialist 1 is $41,506 to $61,927 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 47611.
- 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 12/01/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is beginning level technical work in the creation, maintenance, and retention of inmates’ criminal history and identification records in a central office environment or a state correctional facility without diagnostic and classification authority. An employee in this job is responsible for assisting in the compilation, review, evaluation, and/or validation of inmate records. Work involves gathering documentation from a variety of sources in response to requests for information; compiling information and preparing correspondence, reports, and other documents; and maintaining up-to-date inmate records. At a state correctional facility, work also involves processing incoming and outgoing inmate transfer records and may include photographing and fingerprinting inmates and performing sentence computations.
Examples of the work
• Assists in collecting inmates’ criminal history and identification records by interviewing inmates, making inquiries to local and out-of-state law enforcement agencies, and contacting committing courts. • Assists in evaluating records to determine inmate eligibility for the Justice Reinvestment Initiative 2 (JRI2) program. • Participates in processing inmate population movements to and from a facility to include assembling all pertinent records from various departments within the facility and arranging for proper disposition of personal effects. • Assists in the compilation of statistical data utilized to develop reports.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years of clerical or correctional custodial experience; or • An equivalent combination of experience and 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.