Chief of Staff, Secretary of Human Services pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 49900
- Class code
- 49900
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief of Staff, Secretary of Human Services is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 49900.
- 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 11/24/2014.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible consultative and policy development work as the Chief of Staff for the Department of Human Services (DHS). The employee in this job assists the DHS Secretary with establishing departmental goals and objectives, formulating administrative policies and procedures, and providing guidance to the program offices in the interpretation, implementation, and evaluation of various programs. Work includes ensuring maximum integration of all human service programs over which the department has jurisdiction, identifying and researching major problems and issues, recommending action to the Secretary, and overseeing activities of the program offices.
Examples of the work
Directs the development and coordination of policy and communications to incorporate the Secretary’s vision, goals and objectives regarding the integration, implementation and evaluation of all human services programs. Provides advice to the Secretary on sensitive DHS matters. Manages and monitors the status of special and major projects for the Secretary which includes directing management work groups and task forces. Monitors the program offices for timely and appropriate responses or action on behalf of the Secretary on various identified issues/problems.
Minimum qualifications
Eight years of consultative human services program experience that includes three years in a supervisory capacity and five years involving program planning and policy development, and a bachelor's degree; or An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes three years of human services program supervisory experience and five years of professional program planning and policy development experience in human services programs.
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.