Survey Technician pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 12220
- Class code
- 12220
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Survey Technician is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 12220.
- 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 advanced technical work performing a full range of interchangeable tasks on a survey corps engaged in the collection, computation and processing of survey data. Employees in this job, using conventional and state-of-the art surveying equipment, perform a full range of tasks on a survey corps. Work includes performing the technical activities required for 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. Employees in this job perform all survey tasks which require operating various types of survey equipment including electronic total station survey systems, electronic distance measuring instruments, theodolites, transits, levels, GPS units, elevation rods and chains to obtain survey data.
Examples of the work
Performs all survey corps functions using both conventional and electronic equipment for preliminary, right-of-way, engineering, chain, location, traverse, bridge, construction, borrow pit, final geodetic, topographic, aerial, land and property surveys. Makes field decisions as to location and recording of traverse points and topography points. Communicates orally and by hand signals and radio with fellow workers. Operates both electronic and conventional instruments used by the survey corps to determine elevation, location and distances in the assigned survey area.
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as an Engineering Technician; or Three years of experience as a member of a survey corps which included duties operating both standard and electronic surveying instruments; or One year 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.