Special Agent A, OSIG pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 70855
- Class code
- 70855
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Special Agent A, OSIG is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 70855.
- 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 10/13/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is professional, law enforcement, and investigative work involving suspected fraud and/or overpayments associated with human services benefits. An employee in this job is responsible for conducting difficult, varied, and complex investigations involving alleged violations of federal or state laws or regulations by benefit applicants, recipients, providers, or commonwealth employees. Work includes determining the course and scope of investigations and serving as team leader, when needed; investigating public assistance fraud and program violations through the examination of benefit applications and overpayment claims; recovering funds legally owed to the commonwealth and initiating disqualification terms; tracking case actions in a proprietary system; and completing comprehensive reports of investigation.
Examples of the work
• Conducts investigations into suspected theft, fraud, or abuse of human service program benefits by applicants, recipients, and departmental employees, or acts perpetrated by outside sources not directly involved with these programs, by independently applying the entire spectrum of investigative processes and procedures. • Receives and analyzes case information to determine the course and scope of the investigation.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of investigative experience and a bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Special requirements
• All positions require possession of an active Pennsylvania non-commercial Class C driver’s license or equivalent. • All employees must obtain CLEAN/NCIC certification within two months of employment and maintain this certification for the duration of employment in this job..
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.