Chief Psychiatric Officer pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 37560
- Class code
- 37560
- Pay scale group
- DR 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- T3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief Psychiatric Officer is $272,784 to $314,955 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 37560.
- 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 07/20/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative medical work in the planning, coordination, development, and evaluation of statewide behavioral health services for the Department of Human Services (DHS) or Department of Corrections (DOC). An employee in this job serves as the Department's Chief Psychiatric Officer with agency-wide responsibility for the direction and oversight of behavioral health services and policy development applicable to individuals treated for mental illness and/or individuals with mental illness receiving services from DHS or DOC.
Examples of the work
• Establishes and implements behavioral health standards of care, drug formularies, and clinical quality and risk management mechanisms for agency operated facilities and regulated behavioral health providers. • Develops and implements behavioral health clinical policy related to emergency behavioral health services. • Organizes and conducts regular meetings with facility psychiatrists, physicians, psychiatric service vendors, and/or County Mental Health Administrators to communicate and coordinate psychiatric and behavioral health clinical services. • Oversees clinical quality management programs for contracted managed care organizations for the provision of behavioral health care.
Minimum qualifications
• Four years of experience in the practice of psychiatry, and Board Certification in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry.
Special requirements
• All employees in this job require possession of an active unrestricted license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as issued by the State Board of Medicine or the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
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.