Revenue Tax Audit Program Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 03980
- Class code
- 03980
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Revenue Tax Audit Program Specialist is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 03980.
- 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 07/12/2008.
What the state says the job is
This is consultative and complex professional tax auditing work involving the review, examination, and analysis of a tax audit program in the Department of Revenue. An employee in this job serves as a consultant to tax audit staff and performs analytical and evaluative activities to ensure the effectiveness of the tax audit program, the consistent application of sound professional audit practices, and compliance with the Commonwealth’s rules and regulations. In central office, work includes statewide responsibility as the technical expert in at least one major tax area and involves participation in the development of rules, regulations, policies, and procedures for an audit program; reviewing proposed, new, or amended tax legislation to advise management about the legislative impact on audit procedures and standards; and revising the audit procedures or standards as required.
Examples of the work
Provides general leadership to auditors in the conduct of audits for personal income, employer withholding, sales and use, corporation, liquid fuels, international fuel agreement, cigarette, and malt beverage taxes. Participates in the development of regulations, policies, and procedures for the audit program including the development of procedural manuals. Answers technical questions about audit procedures and accounting records. Interprets tax laws, audit regulations, policies, and procedures for managers, auditors, the Attorney General staff, taxpayers, and their representatives.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Senior Revenue Tax Auditor; or Four years of professional tax accounting or tax auditing experience and a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 24 college level credits in accounting.
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.