Corrections Food Service Manager 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 81530
- Class code
- 81530
- Pay scale group
- CM 04
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- N3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Food Service Manager 1 is $53,692 to $108,402 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 81530.
- 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 04/15/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is managerial work assisting with the food service operation at a correctional institution or directing the food service operation for the Department of Corrections Training Academy. An employee in this job assists a higher-level food service manager with planning, organizing, and directing food service operations in a correctional institution. Work involves managing food preparation, production, and serving; supervising sanitation; overseeing and providing direction to staff, including corrections food service supervisors, instructors, and inmate workers; developing and modifying menus; assisting with the food service operation budget; developing, recommending, and delivering training programs to food service staff; and evaluating on-the-job food service training provided to inmate workers.
Examples of the work
• Oversees the day-to-day food service operations in a correctional institution or in the Training Academy. • Ensures proper care, custody, and control of inmates during on-the-job instruction and work assignments. • Assists with the food service department’s budget, including monitoring expenditures. • Determines and communicates staffing needs and priorities for the food service department in accordance with institutional and departmental objectives. • Assists with modifying selective menus in the institution in accordance with doctors’ prescriptions, religious diet requirements, and standards of nutrition, cost, and quality.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Corrections Food Service Supervisor; or • Four years of paraprofessional experience in food preparation, production, or service of a variety of complete meal menus in an institutional food service operation, food catering service, restaurant, or in a similar large-scale food production operation, which includes one year of supervisory experience; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes one year of supervisory experience in food preparation, production, or service.
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.