Director, Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response, DOH pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 39435
- Class code
- 39435
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response, DOH is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 39435.
- 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 11/01/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is professional administrative work directing the emergency preparedness and response program in the Department of Health (DOH). The employee in this job is responsible for planning, directing, and evaluating the commonwealth’s public health and healthcare preparedness and response programs. Work involves advising healthcare and government executives on public health and healthcare preparedness and response policies, procedures, and initiatives. Work also involves ensuring, through subordinate staff, the coordination and integration of programs and resources between the commonwealth, regional associations, counties, municipalities, and nearby states. Work is assigned in the form of program goals and objectives and is reviewed by the Deputy Secretary, Health Preparedness and Community Protection through reports, conferences, and results achieved.
Examples of the work
• Serves as a consultant to the Governor in response to an actual or suspected disease outbreak, including advising on emergency isolation and quarantine. • Advises the Secretary of Health and other high-level agency decision-makers on issues relating to the development and administration of the statewide emergency preparedness and response program. • Serves as the principal advisor on program policy to the Deputy Secretary for Health Preparedness and Community Protection. • Reviews and recommends changes to legislation impacting public health and healthcare preparedness and response programs.
Minimum qualifications
• Five years of professional experience planning or developing health, preparedness, or emergency response programs, including three years in a supervisory capacity, and a bachelor's degree in health, emergency management, or a related field; or • An equivalent combination of professional experience and training which includes three years of supervisory experience in the planning or development of health, preparedness, or emergency programs.
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.