Transportation Planning Specialist Trainee pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 11600
- Class code
- 11600
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Transportation Planning Specialist Trainee is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 11600.
- 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 07/31/2025.
What the state says the job is
This is structured and specialized training in professional transportation planning and programming in the Department of Transportation involving highway, mass transit, aviation, rail freight, port, or waterway systems. In the central office or an engineering district office, an employee in this job participates in formal, informal, and on-the-job training designed to develop technical knowledge, competency, and experience in the application of a variety of transportation planning and programming principles.
Examples of the work
• Participates in formal and on-the-job training designed to introduce and develop familiarity with transportation planning and programming. • Participates in the development and monitoring of a schedule for project implementation consistent with state funding capabilities. • Participates in the development of capital budget information. • Prepares written and oral reports for agency and local decision makers on individual projects, programs, and related issues. • Compiles, analyzes, and projects land use, travel, mass transit, aviation, rail freight, and other data. • Reviews and analyzes financing mechanisms and federal and state legislation.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor's degree in civil engineering, environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, planning, computer science, geography, earth science, economics, finance, or a closely related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.