Director of Financial Operations, DHS pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 08960
- Class code
- 08960
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director of Financial Operations, DHS is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 08960.
- 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 07/14/1997.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible administrative and policy work directing the Bureau of Financial Operations in the Department of Human Services. The employee in this class is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling major activities related to the financial management and audit review program in the Department of Human Services. Work involves meeting regularly with high level departmental officials including the Secretary of Human Services, Directors of Policy and Budget and Chief Counsel to develop and implement policies relative to revenue collections, payments to community human services providers and audits of departmental provider organizations.
Examples of the work
Participates in the planning and development of overall agency policies and objectives and provides consultative services as the resource person for financial operations. Plans, directs and develops policy for the following revenue collection/cost saving programs: Medigap, Employer Group Health Plan and Casualty Programs. Plans, directs, and coordinates TPL financial operation activities and MH/ID facility reimbursements. Plans, directs, and coordinates DHS program of financial grants for community human services programs, including the provision of technical assistance to counties.
Minimum qualifications
Four years of progressively responsible professional experience in fiscal management, budgeting, accounting and/or auditing work, including two years of administrative and supervisory experience, and two years which involved the review management or auditing of governmental programs and a bachelor's degree; 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.