Chief Dentist, DHS pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 33955
- Class code
- 33955
- Pay scale group
- DR 03
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- T3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief Dentist, DHS is $166,143 to $235,854 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 33955.
- 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 06/19/2002.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative work in the planning, integration, coordination, and evaluation of statewide dental health services policies, procedures and programs for the Department of Human Services (DHS). The employee in this class serves as the Department's Chief Dentist with agency-wide responsibility for the oversight of dental health services and the provision of clinical dental input into the development and implementation of dental health services policy. This employee serves as part of the Department's Clinical Leadership Team and provides a focal point for all dental health services policy, clinical dental coordination, and quality management for dental health services. Work involves developing and/or coordinating the development of dental health services policy to ensure consistent application across all Departmental program offices.
Examples of the work
Provides statewide direction in the development and implementation of policy guiding the provision of quality dental health services. Directs the Office of Medical Assistance Programs' (OMAP) clinical and dental staff in the development of dental clinic policies and procedures. Directs the processes and procedures required to assure the provision of high quality dental health services. Consults with executives and program office and facility management dental staff and managers regarding dental health care practices. Establishes standards of care and dental health services quality and risk management mechanisms for community and facility based programs.
Minimum qualifications
Graduation with a degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery or Doctor of Dental Medicine from a dental school approved or recognized by the Pennsylvania State Board of Dentistry; five years of professional experience in the practice of dentistry; and one full year, within the past three years, in an administrative or managerial capacity in a dental clinic, hospital or institutional setting for individuals/patients with a mental illness or physical and/or developmental disability, a public health agency, a managed care organization serving a significant Medicaid population, or an equivalent agency /organization; and Successful completion of 30 hours of continuing oral health education approved by th ...
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 DR schedule.