Chief of Program Development, Transportation pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 15900
- Class code
- 15900
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief of Program Development, Transportation is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 15900.
- 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 03/06/2015.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible managerial and administrative work in the development of comprehensive transportation programs in the Department of Transportation. The employee in this job is responsible for directing, through subordinate supervisors and managers, the development of comprehensive programs for transportation activities in the areas of construction, maintenance, safety and capacity improvements, rail, air, and public transportation; establishing program priorities within existing financial constraints; coordinating the integration of specific project developments within the program framework; and performing program analysis through development of options which include projects from various department program areas.
Examples of the work
• Directs the development, coordination, and implementation of the department’s annual work programs, such as Interstate and Appalachian completion, safety, operations improvements, restoration, rehabilitation and resurfacing, and local and public transportation activities. • Coordinates the department's transportation planning and project implementation programs statewide and oversees the planning and programming of state and local bridge projects and coordination of new initiatives.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years as a Transportation Planning Manager; or • Five years of professional transportation planning, transportation administration, or transportation engineering experience, which includes two years in a supervisory capacity and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, planning, computer science, or geography; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.