Assistant Director, Bureau of Epidemiology pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 34515
- Class code
- 34515
- Pay scale group
- ST 13
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Assistant Director, Bureau of Epidemiology is $133,810 to $186,309 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 34515.
- 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 02/20/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible professional, scientific, and administrative work assisting in directing the activities of the Bureau of Epidemiology in the Department of Health. The employee in this job assists in planning and directing a wide variety of public health and environmental health epidemiology programs. Work involves participating in determining and implementing operational priorities, policies, procedures, goals, and objectives, and ensuring their alignment with overall department goals; advising on, and participating in, the development and improvement of public health and epidemiology programs; providing consultative technical expertise and advisory services on the collection and analysis of epidemiological data; and directing outbreak response activities.
Examples of the work
• Assists the Director, Bureau of Epidemiology in the management and direction of a multi-faceted public health epidemiological surveillance, investigation, prevention, and control program. • Develops, coordinates, and disseminates public health and environmental health epidemiology program goals and standards. • Reviews epidemiological studies and reports and provides technical expertise on the interpretation of epidemiological information. • Develops, establishes, and advises on public health and environmental health epidemiology program goals and implementation methods in accordance with federal and state requirements.
Minimum qualifications
• Four years of professional experience investigating disease outbreaks or clusters, designing and conducting epidemiologic studies, or designing and maintaining an epidemiologic surveillance system, which includes one year of supervisory experience; and a doctoral degree in medicine (MD), osteopathy (DO), dentistry (DDS/DDM/DMD), veterinary medicine (DVM), epidemiology, health, biology, chemistry, nursing, pharmacy, or a closely related field that includes or is supplemented by three doctoral level credits in statistics, social sciences, or population studies.
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.