Director, Bureau of Planning, Training and Exercise, PEMA pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 76185
- Class code
- 76185
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Planning, Training and Exercise, PEMA is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 76185.
- 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 05/13/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible administrative work in directing emergency response planning, training and exercise, and qualification programs within the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA). The employee in this job is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the Bureau of Planning, Training and Exercise. Work involves developing, implementing, and interpreting policies and procedures for emergency management, homeland security, tactical, operational, and community planning programs and exercises; developing, implementing, and interpreting policies and procedures to establish the training, certification, and continuing education requirements of agency staff and county and local emergency management personnel; and overseeing the development, review, evaluation, maintenance, and administration of a variety of emergency response plans to ensure the commonwealth’s preparedness fo ...
Examples of the work
• Directs and participates in the review, evaluation, and maintenance of the State Emergency Operations Plan. • Develops and implements policies and procedures to ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements for planning, training and exercise, and qualification programs. • Develops and implements policies and procedures which provide programmatic guidance on the utilization of the Homeland Security Grant and the Emergency Response and Planning Grant. • Develops, implements, and maintains policies and procedures which establish the training, certification, and continuing education requirements of agency staff and county and local emergency management personnel.
Minimum qualifications
• Six years of professional emergency management experience that includes two years of emergency management program planning and policy development and one year of supervisory experience, and a bachelor's degree in public administration, public safety, or a closely related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes two years of emergency management program planning and policy development and one year of 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.