Wildlife Veterinarian pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 53321
- Class code
- 53321
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Wildlife Veterinarian is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 53321.
- 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 03/27/2025.
What the state says the job is
This is professional veterinary and scientific work administering the statewide wildlife health program in the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The employee in this job provides program direction, subject matter expertise, and consultation on wildlife veterinary medicine and epidemiology to promote the health of wild birds and mammals. Work involves directing, implementing, and coordinating the surveillance, identification, investigation, response, and reporting of wildlife disease outbreaks; directing, designing, and implementing wildlife health management strategies; developing, implementing, and coordinating related activities, plans, policies, procedures, and research with agency personnel and other state and federal agencies, academic institutions, and external partners; directing, implementing, and coordinating agency wildlife capture, wildlife handling, and biological specimen collec ...
Examples of the work
• Provides consultative services to agency executives and personnel; other state and federal agencies; municipal, county, and local officials; and the public on statewide wildlife veterinary health and epidemiology. • Designs and conducts diverse and complex wildlife health population surveys and wildlife disease outbreak investigations and communicates findings to agency personnel, external partners, and the public. • Develops, revises, and implements statewide plans, policies, and procedures to promote wildlife health and incorporate it into agency wildlife and habitat management strategies.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years of professional experience practicing veterinary medicine with free-ranging North American wildlife which includes wildlife capture, chemical immobilization, epidemiology, pathology, and research and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or a Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris (VMD) from an American Veterinary Medical Association accredited college or university; or • One year of professional experience practicing veterinary medicine with free-ranging North American wildlife which includes wildlife capture, chemical immobilization, epidemiology, pathology, and research, and a master’s degree in preventive veterinary medicine, epidemiology, wildlife ecology, or wildlife management an ...
Special requirements
• The employee must obtain an active license to practice veterinary medicine issued by the Pennsylvania State Board of Veterinary Medicine prior to beginning employment and must maintain it for the duration of employment in this job.
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.