Director, Bureau of Planning and Research, DOT pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 16450
- Class code
- 16450
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Planning and Research, DOT is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 16450.
- 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 03/25/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible managerial work planning and directing the activities of the Bureau of Planning and Research in the Department of Transportation. The employee in this job directs the department’s research program by identifying and implementing initiatives aimed at making maximum use of data in existing department information systems. Work involves conducting data collection activities, reporting on the condition and performance of transportation systems, maintaining and enhancing decision support systems, providing cartographic information products including all official transportation system maps, and developing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the department and other commonwealth agencies.
Examples of the work
• Plans, directs, and administers activities which support department-wide program management in the areas of research, local technical assistance, performance monitoring, highway travel data collection, development and demonstration, GIS, and cartographic information. • Assigns work to subordinates in the form of programs or broad objectives and determines bureau priorities in accordance with overall department objectives. • Confers with top level management officials, bureau directors, district officials, and various other technical personnel to review work priorities and resolve issues related to services provided by assigned staff.
Minimum qualifications
• Eight years of professional transportation engineering or transportation planning experience, which includes four years in supervisory capacity; and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, planning, computer science, geography, business administration, or science. or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.