Chief, Absence Services Division pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 05205
- Class code
- 05205
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief, Absence Services Division is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 05205.
- 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 08/15/2019.
What the state says the job is
This is professional, consultative work managing the activities and operations of the Absence Services Division in the Human Resources Service Center (HRSC). The employee in this job oversees the development and administration of commonwealth benefits related to absences, workers’ compensation, and safety programs. Work involves recommending program goals, objectives, and priorities to ensure that benefit programs are implemented and administered to meet the needs of employees; and to ensure a safe, productive, and efficient work environment through the delivery of services that assist, restore, and retain valued employees. Important aspects of the work involve developing coordinated collective bargaining strategies for assigned program areas, assisting the Bureau of Employee Relations in labor negotiations, and advising the HRSC Director on programmatic issues.
Examples of the work
• Manages the development and implementation of employee absences, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, and safety policies and programs. • Advises the HRSC Director on employee absence, workers’ compensation, and safety program issues. • Provides detailed analyses of issues to staff involved in contract negoitations. • Oversees the administration of the commonwealth’s workers’ compensation and safety programs. • Develops and recommends policy guidance on the use of leave and holiday benefits. • Leads the preparation of cost projections for current or proposed programs. • Coordinates the bidding and selection processes for service providers.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as a Human Resource Analyst 5; or • Six years of professional public human resources management experience that includes two years in a supervisory capacity managing an employee benefits program, and a bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes two years in a supervisory capacity managing an employee benefits program.
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.