Assistant Director of Laboratories, DOH pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 32125
- Class code
- 32125
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- P3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Assistant Director of Laboratories, DOH is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 32125.
- 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 04/19/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional scientific and administrative work assisting the bureau director in managing Bureau of Laboratories activities for the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH). The employee in this job assists in planning and directing the state public health laboratory and research program, which includes overseeing microbiology, chemical and toxicology, and laboratory improvement programs. Work involves developing and implementing bureau policies and procedures, advising agency executive staff on public health laboratory issues and interpreting related laws and regulations, and organizing and developing agendas to expand laboratory capacity. The employee in this job functions as the bureau director in the director's absence and acts as the senior staff member in developing research teams. Supervision is exercised over subordinate managers.
Examples of the work
• Plans, organizes, and develops agendas for expanding laboratory capacity in regard to emerging and food borne diseases. • Conducts literature searches for published articles and determines their applicability to the bureau's operational systems. • Develops and publishes strategies for laboratory research. • Coordinates bioterrorism response among the bureau staff, community laboratories, federal agencies, and other states. • Provides expert counsel to the medical and laboratory communities. • Investigates operational and data management systems to improve the efficiency of bureau operations.
Special requirements
• The employee in this job must meet the qualifications under the provisions of the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) for Laboratory Director (§493.1443) within eighteen months of hire. • The employee in this job must meet the Qualifications of Director under 28 Pa.
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.