Director, Bureau of Mine Safety pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 12980
- Class code
- 12980
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Mine Safety is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 12980.
- 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 04/28/2007.
What the state says the job is
This is professional managerial work directing the activities of the Bureau of Mine Safety in the Department of Environmental Protection. The employee in this job directs the activities of a professional and technical staff engaged in a variety of duties involving the statewide anthracite, bituminous and noncoal underground mine safety programs. Work involves determining goals, objectives and priorities for the program; developing and implementing rules, regulations, policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to manage program activities; developing program related legislation or reviewing proposed legislation for possible impact on the program; and determining and preparing budgetary requests.
Examples of the work
Directs the planning, development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of statewide underground mining programs designed to ensure work safety in the underground mines of the Commonwealth. Directs the development of statewide policies, technical standards and procedures for permitting, monitoring, enforcement and technical assistance activities involving the underground mine safety program. Directs the safety inspection of all underground mines, the investigation of complaints concerning hazardous working conditions, and the review and approval of plans and equipment utilized in underground mining operations.
Minimum qualifications
A bachelor’s degree in an engineering or scientific field related to underground mining and miner safety, and nine years of professional experience in the underground mine safety field. Four of the nine years of required experience must have included managerial and second-level supervisory experience; or An equivalent combination of experience and training that 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.