Survey Technician Supervisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 12221
- Class code
- 12221
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B2
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Survey Technician Supervisor is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 12221.
- 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 05/03/2005.
What the state says the job is
This is supervisory technical work in directing a survey corps engaged in the collection, computation and processing of survey data. Employees in this job supervise a survey corps engaged in measuring the existing field locations of natural and man-made features, the locations of property borders, the dimensions of land areas, and the precise positioning of points, lines and grades. Work includes supervising Survey Technicians who use conventional and state-of-the-art surveying equipment as well as associated systems to perform surveys. Work is performed within the framework of standard procedures and commonly accepted practices with the employee exercising a high degree of independent judgment in making on-site survey decisions involving complex projects.
Examples of the work
Supervises the activities of a survey corps engaged in surveys, computations and field data processing for preliminary, right-of-way, engineering, chain, location, traverse, bridge, construction, borrow pit, final geodetic, topographic, aerial, land and property surveys using both conventional and electronic equipment. Supervises the operation of electronic total stations, electronic distance measuring instruments, theodolites, transits, levels, GPS units, elevation rods and other instruments necessary to obtain survey data.
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as a Survey Technician; or Four years of experience as a member of a survey corps which included duties operating both standard and electronic surveying instruments; or Two years of experience as a member of a survey corps which included duties operating both standard and electronic surveying instruments, and an associate's degree in surveying, drafting, design, civil or any other appropriate field of engineering technology. CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT: Certain positions in this job will require possession of a valid Pennsylvania 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.