Chief of Psychiatry pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 37520
- Class code
- 37520
- Pay scale group
- DR 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- T3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief of Psychiatry is $256,314 to $302,280 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 37520.
- 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 09/01/1986.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work in the management of the total psychiatric or child psychiatric services at a state hospital. An employee in this class has hospital wide responsibility for the planning, management, coordination, evaluation, and integration of psychiatric or child psychiatric services to further comprehensive patient treatment. The employee develops policies and procedures regulating the conduct of all psychiatric or child psychiatric services, continuously evaluates their effectiveness, and promote staff improvement. Supervision is normally exercised over subordinate psychiatrists, physicians, and/or resident physicians in the implementation of hospital-wide psychiatric or child psychiatric services.
Examples of the work
Directs, coordinates and integrates the total psychiatric or child psychiatric services in a state hospital. Provides overall direction to subordinate staff in the delivery of all psychiatric or child psychiatric services and participates in providing services to meet individual patient treatment plan objectives. Develops policies and procedures governing the administration of all psychiatric or child psychiatric services within the hospital. Interprets policies and procedures to hospital staff and coordinates the delivery of all psychiatric/child psychiatric services with other professional services within the hospital. Supervises clinical and/or professional staff.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Psychiatrist Supervisor; or Two years of experience in psychiatry or child psychiatry, including one year in a supervisory, administrative, or consultative capacity; and completion of a residency or training program in psychiatry which meets the certification requirements of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry.
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.