Chief, Salary Administration Division pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 05150
- Class code
- 05150
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief, Salary Administration Division is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 05150.
- 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 05/01/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible managerial work developing and administering wage and salary standards for employees under the Governor's jurisdiction. The employee in this job oversees staff responsible for evaluating and developing compensation and salary proposals for department heads, deputy secretaries, management, supervisory, and rank and file employees. Work involves analyzing trends, developing pay proposals, projecting cost estimates, and presenting recommendations to the Deputy Secretary for Human Resources and Management and the Director, Bureau of Organization Management.
Examples of the work
• Directs a staff responsible for the development and administration of the commonwealth’s pay standards, including the construction and maintenance of all commonwealth salary schedules. • Develops pay proposals for all employees under the Governor's jurisdiction. • Supervises a staff responsible for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information regarding salary surveys. • Analyzes trends, develops proposals, projects cost estimates, and presents recommendations regarding pay practices and procedures affecting department heads, management, supervisory, and rank and file employees. • Develops and refines rules and regulations related to pay administration.
Minimum qualifications
• Three years as a Human Resource Analyst 3 (commonwealth title); or • Five years of pay administration experience involving the gathering, analysis, and presentation of pay and economic data; and a bachelor's degree in human resources, mathematics, statistics, or a closely related area; 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.