Director, Bureau of Benefits Administration, SERS pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 09515
- Class code
- 09515
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Benefits Administration, SERS is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 09515.
- 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 11/30/1999.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible administrative and managerial work in the direction of the Bureau of Benefit Administration in the State Employees' Retirement System. The employee in this class is responsible for directing a professional, technical, and clerical staff engaged in performing a variety of services related to the administration of a large scale and complex retirement program for state employees. The employee in this class plans, organizes, and directs the work of retirement processing, disability eligibility determination, purchase of service, refund processing, death benefit payments, money adjustments, and document research and processing. The employee also plays a significant role in policy and regulation development and introduction of legislative changes related to the administration of the retirement program.
Examples of the work
Plans, organizes, and directs the work of professional, technical and clerical personnel performing major staff services related to the administration of a complex retirement program in the areas of membership administration and benefit determination. Directs the analysis of the Bureau program, including program output, program effectiveness, program improvement and new program requirements. Plans and assigns work to subordinate division directors and bureau secretary, determines objectives and performance standards, evaluates employee performance, and evaluates and recommends training needs of subordinates.
Minimum qualifications
Two years as a SERS Benefit Policy Administrator or two years as Chief of Field Operations, SERS or five years as a SERS Regional Manager or six years as a Retirement Administrator; or Four years of management experience including one year of supervisory experience over professional and/or technical staff in a public employees' retirement system; and a bachelor's degree in Public or Business Administration or a related area; or Any equivalent combination of experience and training including one year of supervisory experience over professional and/or technical staff.
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.