Director of Commonwealth Payroll Operations pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 08935
- Class code
- 08935
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director of Commonwealth Payroll Operations is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 08935.
- 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 05/16/1997.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible administrative and professional accounting work directing the Bureau of Commonwealth Payroll Operations in the Office of the Budget. The employee in this class is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating the development and provision of centralized payroll and travel entitlement policy, systems, reporting and processing and related technical services to insure the timely, legal, accurate and efficient payment of compensation entitlements to Commonwealth employees. Work involves directing and coordinating staff efforts in the maintenance, processing and auditing of Commonwealth payrolls; payroll accounting and reporting; post audit operations and the pre-audit, processing, accounting and reporting of travel expense vouchers for Commonwealth employees.
Examples of the work
Establishes administrative and technical policy for the Bureau and manages a statewide payroll program to provide payroll accounting services for Commonwealth agencies and to insure the accountability and proper commitment, expenditure and recovery of funds they administer through the pre and post auditing of payroll expenditures and travel entitlement and payroll accounting and reporting. Directs the review and approval of Commonwealth payrolls for availability of funds, reasonableness and propriety, and adherence to laws, regulations, or other legal or policy constraints.
Minimum qualifications
c Seven years of experience in professional accounting work, including three years in a supervisory capacity, and a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related field; or Any 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.