Department of Civil Service

Economics, Research and Statistics

Starting Salary

$61,270

Career Ladder Information

(Not Available)

Program Research Specialists (Agriculture) participate in research studies and assist in developing studies relating to acreage, production of crops, livestock, commodities pricing, milk production, receipts and utilization of milk, prices and margins for milk, and organization and structure of the industry. Use knowledge of current research methodology to evaluate and analyze agency programs and present your findings to operations and management officials.

• Department of Agriculture & Markets

Either 1. A bachelor's degree including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics*, research methods, or statistics AND two years of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (e.g., data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data directed toward review, analysis, and presentation related to program operations OR

2. A master's degree or higher including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics*, research methods, or statistics AND one year of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (e.g., data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data directed toward review, analysis, and presentation related to program operations.

*For the purposes of this examination qualifying mathematics courses will include actuarial science, finance, and mathematics.

The November 2022 PCO Examination is closed, applications are no longer being accepted