Director, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 16582
- Class code
- 16582
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 16582.
- 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 06/26/2006.
What the state says the job is
This is professional managerial work directing the activities of the Bureau of Recreation and Conservation in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The employee in this job works closely and collaboratively with the Secretary and Executive staff and is responsible for directing and overseeing an internal structure for the leadership and oversight of the Conservation Landscape Initiative (CLI) Program. This work involves establishing and directing an internal, multi-disciplinary, multi-bureau team using a matrix-management approach; ensuring each CLI develops a set of goals, objectives, and grant budget with key partners; and leveraging the grant funding from other state agencies, federal agencies, and private partners for projects arising out of the CLI process.
Examples of the work
Establishes cross-bureau interagency teams, convenes key partners in each landscape area and engages other state, local and federal entities. Advances program goals through grants and programs operated by DCNR employees. Implements plans for each CLI. Develops, recommends, presents, defends, and implements short-range, medium-range, and long-range goals, objectives, and initiatives for the CLI Program to Executive staff. Develops and administers the CLI multi-year spending plan. Directs, through subordinate supervisors and managers, the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of the statewide recreation and conservation programs.
Minimum qualifications
A bachelor's degree in parks and recreation, landscape architecture, or planning; and nine years of progressively responsible experience in the recreation and conservation field which includes four years of managerial experience; or An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes a minimum of four years of managerial 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.