Director, Bureau of Laboratories, DEP pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 54090
- Class code
- 54090
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Laboratories, DEP is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 54090.
- 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 12/06/1995.
What the state says the job is
This is professional managerial work directing the activities of the Bureau of Laboratories in the Department of Environmental Protection. The Bureau of Laboratories is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of environmental laboratory programs involved in the testing and analysis of water, wastewater, milk, air contaminants, fuel, toxic materials and chemicals, soils, aquatic life, and insects. The employee in this class directs, through subordinate managers, the activities of a professional and technical staff engaged in providing analytical services to the environmental regulatory, planning, and advisory programs of the Department. Chemical, microbiological, radioactivical, biological, and physical testing are conducted in laboratory facilities in Harrisburg and Erie.
Examples of the work
Directs, through subordinate managers, the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of environmental laboratory programs involved in the testing and analysis of water, wastewater, milk, air contaminants, fuel, toxic materials and chemicals, soils, aquatic life, and insects. Directs the development of statewide policies, technical standards and procedures for permitting, monitoring, enforcement and technical assistance activities involving laboratory quality assurance programs. Coordinates and directs laboratory certification programs as mandated by state or federal laws.
Minimum qualifications
A Bachelor s degree in biology, chemistry, microbiology, public health, or a field closely related to laboratory services and nine years of professional experience in the laboratory services 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.