Corrections Classification Program Manager pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 47438
- Class code
- 47438
- Pay scale group
- CM 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Classification Program Manager is $70,338 to $142,103 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 47438.
- 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 02/26/2002.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and professional work in directing a variety of inmate treatment, classification and other support programs. An employee in this class is responsible for overseeing, implementing and managing inmate treatment, classification, and inmate records, drug and alcohol counseling, religious services, leisure activities, inmate employment assignments, volunteer services, contracted services, inmate classification and parenting programs, where available, in an adult correctional institution. Emphasis is on managing those programs and services, which are provided to inmates in both a centralized location, and on a housing unit. Employees work in collaboration with unit managers to ensure the delivery of both centralized and decentralized services and to maintain quality control.
Examples of the work
Serves as a member of the institution program review committee responsible for directly monitoring the care, custody and control of inmates in restricted housing and special management units. Plans, organizes, and directs the delivery of centralized and decentralized service programs. Serves as consultant to unit managers responsible for evaluating needs and analyzing practices of the classification and treatment programs. Coordinates and/or oversees initial reception staffing of inmates. Assists unit managers in reviewing objectives of individualized inmate treatment plans. Serves as Chairman or panel member for the institutional pre-release process.
Minimum qualifications
Five years of professional experience in social work, counseling or education, including two years of experience in a correctional institution, one of which was in a supervisory capacity; and a master's degree in social work, counseling, behavioral science, education, or a related field; or Any equivalent combination of experience and training which includes two years of professional experience in a correctional institution, one year of which was in a supervisory capacity.
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 CM schedule.