Residential Life Director pay range
State of North Carolina · class code 32000397
- Class code
- 32000397
- Pay group
- NC12
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- North Carolina
- The State of North Carolina published pay range for Residential Life Director is $47,703 to $83,479 per year.
- North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) keys this classification as class code 32000397.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The OSHR class specification for this class is published by North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR). 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 10/2023.
What the state says the job is
Positions in this class are responsible for strategic planning and implementation of a full range of activities and services that ensure the health, safety, and welfare of clients of diverse backgrounds having one or more disabilities in a residential school (or training facility) setting. Based on the setting, the client population is predominantly children and youths, but a limited number of residential training programs may serve adults as short-term students. Programming includes residential life, after school education/ transition programs, recreation, transportation, and other areas as may be assigned.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Basic knowledge of personnel policies and practices, budgeting and/or accounting principles and practices. Intermediate knowledge of the principles and practices of guiding, training, and caring for children and youth with one or more disabilities (specific to the population served) Intermediate knowledge of the principles and practices of guiding, training, and encouraging adults with one or more disabilities (specific to the population served) Intermediate knowledge of sanitation, personal hygiene, and common health and safety precautions applicable to dormitory-like settings, principles and practices of residential programming and business administration Ability to encourage and foster sk ...
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree in child development, special education, or education from an appropriately accredited institution and four years of experience in the delivery of services to the population served in a residential program or in a goal-oriented program setting, two of which must have been supervisory or managerial in nature; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. <h2
Quoted from the OSHR class specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) publishes this figure in OSHR salary schedules, joined to Class Specifications. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their salary grades come from the Class Specifications, joined to the salary schedule.