Unemployment Compensation Tax Agent pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 06720
- Class code
- 06720
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Unemployment Compensation Tax Agent is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 06720.
- 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 01/31/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work in determining and ensuring compliance with the taxing provisions of the state’s UC law. An employee in this job travels to perform compliance audits, investigations, and escalated collection activities to ensure compliance with the taxing provisions of the UC law. Work is usually performed in a specified territory contacting businesses and their representatives in person, by phone, or through written communications. Work involves contacting businesses who are delinquent in filing their tax reports or paying their UC taxes, or are involved in disputed benefits claims. This work also involves performing comprehensive audits and investigations of a business’s payroll, disbursement, and other business records; establishing payment plans; and initiating escalated collection actions in accordance with the UC tax law and administrative regulations.
Examples of the work
• Conducts on-site compliance audits of business records to ensure compliance with the taxing provisions of the PA UC Law. • Determines financial solvency of a business by examining balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other relevant accounting and tax information. • Conducts investigations when a UC claimant disagrees with the wages reported by a business and makes necessary adjustments to the wages based on the results of the investigation. • Determines pre- and post-petition liabilities of business entities that have filed for federal bankruptcy protection and files a claim with the bankruptcy court if appropriate.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree which includes or is supplemented by 18 college credits in finance and accounting, of which at least 6 college credits are in accounting; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes 18 college credits in finance and accounting, of which at least 6 college credits are in accounting.
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.