Corrections Food Service Manager 2 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 81540
- Class code
- 81540
- Pay scale group
- CM 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- N3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Food Service Manager 2 is $61,418 to $124,128 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 81540.
- 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 directing a food service operation at a correctional institution. An employee in this job plans, organizes, and directs a food service operation at a correctional institution. Work involves managing food preparation, production, and serving; supervising sanitation; overseeing and providing direction to staff including lower-level corrections food service managers, supervisors, instructors, and inmate workers; developing and modifying menus; managing the food service operation budget; reviewing and responding to inmate grievances; developing, approving, delivering, and implementing training programs for food service staff; and evaluating on-the-job food service training provided to inmate workers.
Examples of the work
• Plans, organizes, and directs food service operations at a correctional institution. • Establishes work procedures for the overall operation of the food service department. • Ensures proper care, custody, and control of inmates during on-the-job instruction and work assignments. • Manages the food service department’s budget, including monitoring and approving expenditures. • Compiles, reviews, and maintains personnel, budgetary, and other departmental records and reports. • Determines staffing needs and priorities for the food service department in accordance with institutional and departmental objectives.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Corrections Food Service Manager 1 (commonwealth title); or • Two years of experience as a Corrections Food Service Supervisor (commonwealth title); or • Five 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 two years of supervisory experience; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training, which includes two years 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.