Director, Bureau of Forestry pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 54460
- Class code
- 54460
- Pay scale group
- ST 13
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Forestry is $133,810 to $186,309 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 54460.
- 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 12/18/1996.
What the state says the job is
This is professional managerial work directing the activities of the Bureau of Forestry in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Bureau of Forestry is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of the statewide forest management, forest fire protection, forest advisory services, forest insect and disease control, and recreation programs. The employee in this class directs, through subordinate managers, the activities of a large professional, technical, administrative, clerical, and maintenance staff engaged in a variety of duties involving the statewide forestry program.
Examples of the work
Directs, through subordinate managers, the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of the statewide forestry program. Directs the development of statewide rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards involving the state forestry program. Meets with local, state, and federal officials, special interest groups, advisory committees, and the public to resolve sensitive or controversial forest management issues. Reviews and approves licenses, rights-of-way, easements, timber sales, oil and gas leases, and other agreements relating to state forest management.
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in forestry or in a field closely related to forestry, and nine years of professional experience in the forest management field. Four of the nine years of required experience must have included managerial and second-level supervisory experience; or Any equivalent combination of education and experience which affords the applicant the required knowledges, skills, and abilities, and includes a minimum of four years of managerial and second-level 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.