Traffic Control Specialist Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 10858
- Class code
- 10858
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Traffic Control Specialist Trainee is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 10858.
- 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 06/09/2004.
What the state says the job is
This is technical training work in a traffic control engineering program. An employee in this class participates in a comprehensive twelve month on-the-job training program designed to develop technical competency and practical proficiency in the analysis and resolution of traffic control problems. Employees develop practical proficiency in the application of traffic control principles in the safety and studies area, signals and congestion management area, use of signs, the pavement markings and work zone area, and the highway occupancy permit area. Work involves developing analytical presentations of traffic control data for traffic control studies and making recommendations based on those studies. As training progresses, employees will be involved in projects of greater difficulty and complexity.
Examples of the work
Assists in performing or scheduling engineering and traffic studies to determine potential changes in speed limits, no passing zones, and other traffic restrictions. Reviews studies performed by others for instructional purposes. Assists in evaluating requests for hazardous student walking routes and preparing recommendations and correspondence. Assists in scheduling or collecting and validating traffic volumes, vehicle classification, turning movements, origin-and-destination and related field studies. Assists in reviewing safety-related aspects of highway design projects. Assists in preparing alternatives to resolve high crash areas.
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics, statistics, civil engineering technology, or a closely related field; or One year of experience as a Traffic Control Technician; or Four years of experience performing transportation engineering technical assignments such as traffic data collection, traffic studies, pavement marking program oversight, highway sign or pavement marking surveys, traffic signal inspection, materials sampling, testing, or inspection, construction inspection, bridge inspection, survey work, utility relocation, roadway programs management, or roadway materials control; and graduation from high school; or Two years of experience in transportation engineering technical assignments ...
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.