Senior Civil Engineer (General) pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 1113G
- Class code
- 1113G
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Senior Civil Engineer (General) is $80,646 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 1113G.
- 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 04/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced professional civil engineering work. An employee in this job performs advanced and complex professional civil engineering work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria. Work involves a variety of advanced engineering duties associated with the design, construction, or maintenance of roads, bridges, buildings, dams, or related hydrologic structures, water or sewage treatment facilities, structural life support systems, commonwealth facilities, or other civil engineering projects, transportation planning, traffic control of highways, or construction materials testing or sampling. Work includes independently performing or monitoring preliminary engineering studies and foundation investigations, and preparing plans and specifications.
Examples of the work
• In a civil engineering environment, monitors the preparation of construction plans by consultant engineers, reviews location studies, makes field trips in conjunction with location studies or the development of design details, reviews construction plans in progress and upon completion, and provides guidance with regard to agency policies and engineering standards and requirements. • Prepares plan details and specifications for foundations, slopes, drainage, and other geotechnical related features; investigates the cause of geotechnical related failures; develops options; and makes recommendations for their remediation.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years of professional civil engineering experience in the appropriate specialty, and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a closely related engineering discipline; or • Five years of civil engineering experience in the appropriate specialty; and an Engineer-in-Training certificate issued by or acceptable to the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists; and an associate’s degree in civil engineering technology or a closely related engineering discipline; or • Six years of civil engineering experience in the appropriate specialty and an Engineer-in-Training certificate issued by or acceptable to the Pennsylvania State Registra ...
Special requirements
• Certain positions require possession of a valid Professional Engineer license issued by the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. • Certain positions require possession of a valid driver’s license.
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.