Assistant Director, Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 51609
- Class code
- 51609
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Assistant Director, Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 51609.
- 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 03/31/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is managerial and administrative work assisting the director with developing, coordinating, and managing food safety laboratory quality assurance, food inspection, and policy development programs in the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. The employee in this job assists with managing and coordinating food safety legislative and policy development, food safety inspections and investigations, and quality assurance of food product laboratory testing.
Examples of the work
• Manages and coordinates activities related to food safety regulatory compliance, legislative and policy development, and food sample laboratory testing. • Recommends and develops food processing and handling legislation, regulations, and policies based upon research, bureau reporting data, trends, and results from food safety inspections and laboratory analyses. • Identifies strategies for addressing food safety risks using a quantitative metric system to focus inspection efforts toward issues and risks. • Utilizes tools and strategic methods to streamline interactions between divisions and programs for efficiency and improvements in customer service.
Minimum qualifications
• Four years of professional experience in a quality assurance or food safety program, including two years in a supervisory capacity, and a bachelor's degree in food science, food technology, chemistry, biology, or a closely related field; or • Four years of professional experience in a quality assurance or food safety program, including two years in a supervisory capacity, and four years of technical experience conducting food quality inspections.
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.