Assistant Director, Bureau of Career and Technical Education, PDE pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 21795
- Class code
- 21795
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Assistant Director, Bureau of Career and Technical Education, PDE is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 21795.
- 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 10/30/2024.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible administrative and managerial work serving as the Assistant Director of the Bureau of Career and Technical Education in the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). The employee in this job develops and implements administrative and fiscal policy for state, regional, and local programs and directs the operation of PDE’s Career and Technical Education Centers of Excellence. Work involves developing, reviewing, evaluating, and amending bureau fiscal plans, subsidy budgets, and grant programs; evaluating program compliance with federal and state laws; and recommending policy additions or revisions. Work includes developing and implementing secondary, post-secondary, and adult education career and technical education initiatives. Supervision is exercised over a staff of professional employees.
Examples of the work
• Directs the operations of PDE’s Career and Technical Education Centers of Excellence at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Penn State University. • Provides strategic direction and planning for the improvement of existing career and technical education initiatives. • Develops, releases, and reviews requests for competitive grant applications to support education and training opportunities, apprenticeships, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers.
Minimum qualifications
• Seven years of professional experience managing career and technical education programs, including three years of supervisory experience; and a bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes three years of professional supervisory experience managing career and technical education programs.
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.