Director, Bureau of Special Education pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 24360
- Class code
- 24360
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- C3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Special Education is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 24360.
- 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 11/24/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible professional educational and administrative work in planning and directing the statewide program of special education and related services. The employee in this job is responsible for planning, developing, directing, and coordinating a statewide program of special education services for children with disabilities in intermediate units, school districts, private schools, and private agencies. Work involves responsibility for developing program policies, goals, and objectives, and preparing legislative policy proposals and regulations to recommend approval to state review boards.
Examples of the work
• Plans, develops, and directs a statewide program for special education and related services. • Develops, recommends, and implements special education program policies, goals, and objectives. • Prepares and evaluates special education legislative policy proposals and regulations. • Plans, approves, and provides leadership in the development of new and the extension of existing programs for the education of the exceptional child. • Develops state plan for the federal government for the education of exceptional children within the state. • Receives, reviews, approves, and audits plans for federally funded special education projects.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as an Assistant Director, Bureau of Special Education (commonwealth title); or • Eight years of professional experience in the field of special education, which includes five years in an administrative or supervisory capacity; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training, which includes five years of administrative or supervisory experience in special education.
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.