Director for Program Services, State Center pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 33521
- Class code
- 33521
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director for Program Services, State Center is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 33521.
- 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 06/06/2018.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and managerial work directing the non-medical care support services of a state center for individuals with intellectual disabilities in the Department of Human Services (DHS). An employee in this job plans and directs the habilitative, therapeutic, residential, and recreational support services in a state center. Work involves planning, directing, and evaluating non-medical care services; developing and maintaining professional service standards and ensuring that staffing and programming for residential services are in compliance with appropriate Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) regulations; and developing, implementing, and monitoring quality improvement, quality assurance, incident management, and risk management activities to optimize the quality of life and ensure the safety of people living at the assigned state center.
Examples of the work
• Plans, directs, and evaluates the non-medical care services of a state center, including psychological, social work, vocational, speech, language, hearing, and chaplaincy services. • Develops and implements goals and objectives to ensure efficiency in the provision of non-medical care services. • Develops and implements service standards to ensure habilitative care and treatment plans adhere to regulatory and programmatic requirements and ensures compliance with individualized habilitative care and treatment plans. • Assists in the overall administration of the center by participating in the formulation of operational policies, regulations, and procedures.
Minimum qualifications
• Five years of professional experience in providing, developing, or evaluating human services programs, including two years in a supervisory capacity, and a bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes two years of professional supervisory experience in the delivery, development, or evaluation of human services programs.
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.