Corrections Institutional Business Manager pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 08440
- Class code
- 08440
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Corrections Institutional Business Manager is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 08440.
- 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 05/14/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional administrative work directing all business management services at multiple state correctional institutions. An employee in this job oversees all business services at multiple assigned state correctional institutions. Work involves planning and directing budget administration and fiscal control, projects, maintenance of inmate accounts, procurement, storekeeping, information technology support, and mailroom operations. Work includes advising and coordinating with all assigned facility superintendents and other facility and agency staff on the allocation and management of funds to support current operational requirements and plan for future expenditures. Work also involves providing training to business manager staff. Supervision is exercised over professional, technical, and clerical employees.
Examples of the work
• Directs and coordinates, through subordinate staff, the full range of business services in multiple institutions, including budget administration, fiscal planning and control, accounting, procurement, storekeeping, information technology, and mailroom operations. • Determines goals, objectives, and priorities for budget preparation, fund allocation, and budget monitoring. • Prepares operating and capital budgets, including budget forecasts of operating expenditures, equipment requirements, and capital improvement. • Directs work on projects by staff at all assigned facilities.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as a Corrections Institutional Assistant Business Manager (commonwealth title); or • Four years of professional budgeting, accounting, and purchasing experience that includes one year of supervisory experience, and a bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes two years of professional experience in budgeting, accounting, and purchasing and one year of professional supervisory experience.
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.