Criminal Justice System Specialist 3 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 78420
- Class code
- 78420
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Criminal Justice System Specialist 3 is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 78420.
- 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 01/06/2017.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced professional work in the development, planning, and implementation of criminal justice or victim services programs in the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. An employee in this job performs advanced work in the development and evaluation of plans, policies, and initiatives to improve the administration of justice in law enforcement, courts, corrections, and programs that provide support and advocacy for victims of crime. Work involves the development of advanced approaches to researching criminal justice or victim services issues, including the identification of new data sources, the development of new research methodologies, and the preparation of studies and reports that include innovative recommendations for criminal justice system or victim services programs and plans.
Examples of the work
• Conducts advanced research and data analysis, and prepares studies and reports in narrative, graphical, and statistical form that include innovative recommendations for the improvement of criminal justice systems or victim support and advocacy programs. • Develops grant announcements and grant application scoring criteria used to award state and federal funds to units of local government, state agencies, and other organizations. • Provides technical guidance for the scoring of concept papers and applications received in response to funding announcements.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as a Criminal Justice System Specialist 2; or • Three years of professional experience in criminal or juvenile justice, law enforcement, or victim services, and a bachelor’s degree in the social or behavioral sciences, criminal justice, law enforcement, or a related field; or • Two years of professional experience in criminal or juvenile justice, law enforcement, or victim services, and a master’s degree in the social or behavioral sciences, criminal justice, law enforcement, or a related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.