Chief of Staff, Health pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 34650
- Class code
- 34650
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief of Staff, Health is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 34650.
- 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 06/26/1996.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible advisory and consultative professional work as the Chief of Staff, Health. An employee in this class is responsible for guiding and managing the operations of the Secretary's office, providing staff assistance on a wide variety of activities encompassing the Health Department's programs. The employee manages for the Secretary the internal operation of the Executive Office. As a key member of the Secretary's management team, the employee is responsible for fostering the identification, amplification, and discussion of major issues for the Secretary's ultimate resolution. A major responsibility of this position involves the coordination and intervention on behalf of the Secretary with Departmental program managers to identify issues, participate in establishing goals and objectives and the formulation of policies, and the development of strategic plans.
Examples of the work
Examples of Work: Provides advice to the Secretary on a wide variety of highly complex and sensitive programmatic and administrative matters. Serves as primary contact person for the Secretary's executive staff, including Deputy Secretaries, on all but the most sensitive issues which require the Secretary's knowledge or decision-making. Monitors the status of projects and major issues; provides direction to Deputies to ensure appropriate timely action occurs, and to ensure follow- up. Serves as an intermediary in advising the Secretary on specific problems in any of the program areas of the agency. Develops and interprets procedures for the internal operation of the Secretary's Office.
Minimum qualifications
Seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in the field of public health, health or human services and a Bachelor's Degree. or Education above the Bachelor's level in public health, health or human services or a closely related field may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for three years of the required experience. or Any 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.