Retirement Technician Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 09551
- Class code
- 09551
- Pay scale group
- ST 04
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Retirement Technician Trainee is $41,506 to $61,927 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 09551.
- 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 05/14/1997.
What the state says the job is
This is structured trainee level technical work involving the processing of retirement benefits and the maintenance of retirement accounts or the communication of detailed benefits information to the active and annuitant members for the State Employees' Retirement System, the Public School Employees' Retirement System, and the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System. An employee in this class participates in a twelve month formal on-the-job training program designed to develop understanding and competence in interpreting, communicating, and applying Retirement Systems laws in order to respond appropriately to inquiries from the members, reporting units, external organizations and legislators and/or determine all benefit payments and maintain member retirement accounts.
Examples of the work
Participates in formal on-the-job training to develop the knowledge and skills needed to determine benefit payments, to maintain employee retirement accounts, and/or explain all aspects of benefits administration for annuitants and active members in accordance with current retirement law. Assists in providing estimates and/or determining eligibility and calculations for normal, early, frozen, disability, and multiple service retirement benefits. Assists in determining monies owed to the Retirement System and monies due members of the System to include overpayments, underpayments, refunds, purchase of service, adjustments, etc.
Minimum qualifications
Three years of experience in advanced clerical or technical work which includes or is supplemented by either one year of experience applying basic computer skills and techniques or three (3) credits in computer basics and techniques; or Associate Degree that includes or is supplemented by three (3) credits of computer basics and techniques; or Any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training which includes one year of advanced clerical or technical work applying basic computer skills and techniques or three (3) credits of computer basics and techniques.
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.