Director of Emergency Services, DMVA pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 74800
- Class code
- 74800
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director of Emergency Services, DMVA is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 74800.
- 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 06/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced professional and administrative work directing and coordinating emergency services within the Fort Indiantown Gap Installation of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The employee in this job directs emergency planning, response, and management functions. Work involves developing and implementing plans, protocols, and procedures to be used by emergency management officials, police, firefighters, and civilians in the event of natural, terroristic, or hybrid disasters; identifying, assessing, analyzing, and preventing emergent threats, hazards, and site vulnerabilities; researching emergency services and threat trends and applying best practices; ordering evacuations, shelter-in-place, staging locations, and recovery operations; and negotiating and establishing reciprocal service agreements with local emergency services organizations.
Examples of the work
• Oversees the activities of Installation Police Officers and Installation Firefighters on multiple shifts in a 24/7 operational environment. • Develops policies, procedures, and protocols to enhance joint emergency management, police, and firefighting efforts and communications. • Develops and reviews emergency response plans for comprehensiveness. • Directs on-site emergency response activities during an emergency or disaster. • Coordinates emergency management activities with agency leadership, tenants, and outside organizations.
Minimum qualifications
• Five years of municipal or governmental emergency services, law enforcement, or firefighting experience in a management or administrative capacity, and a bachelor’s degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Special requirements
• This position requires possession of an active motor vehicle license. • This position requires certification in the following courses from the Federal Emergency Management Institute at the time of hire: ICS 300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents.
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.