Corrections Health Care Administrator pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 47660
- Class code
- 47660
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Health Care Administrator is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 47660.
- 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 04/20/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and managerial work in providing the inmate population with health care services within the Department of Corrections. An employee in this job manages the health care services at a state correctional facility, or assists with the overall administration of the Department’s health care services in a centralized setting. At a state correctional facility, work involves planning, organizing, and directing a program of health care services to include coordinating the services of professional medical staff and contracted medical vendors; monitoring the provision of contracted health care services; coordinating in-patient and out-patient inmate treatment services at community hospitals; coordinating in-patient mental health and other specialized medical services provided by private practitioners; and supervising a professional, technical, and clerical staff.
Examples of the work
• Plans, organizes, directs, administers, and manages health care services for inmates in the treatment of illnesses, diseases, and injuries in accordance with health care standards, guidelines, and directives including pre and post-operative care, physical examinations, medical and surgical treatments, dentistry, nursing care, physical therapy, dietary services, mental health, psychiatry, x-ray and laboratory technology, hospital admission, and medical records maintenance. • Directs, through subordinate staff, all activities associated with the operation of a state correctional facility infirmary and licensed in-patient mental health unit.
Minimum qualifications
• Six years of professional medical experience in the care and treatment of the physically ill, which included three years of supervisory or administrative experience in a hospital or infirmary, and a bachelor’s degree in a health related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training, which included three years of supervisory or administrative experience in a hospital or infirmary.
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.