Director of Occupational and Industrial Safety pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 71480
- Class code
- 71480
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director of Occupational and Industrial Safety is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 71480.
- 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 01/21/1997.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative work in directing the inspection and enforcement provisions of state laws and regulations governing safety practices and sanitary conditions in buildings and industries for the protection of employees and the public. The employee in this class is responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing programs of inspection, compliance enforcement, accident reporting, and the promotion of safety and sanitary conditions as required by a variety of state laws and regulations. Work involves formulating and implementing policies and procedures for the periodic inspection of buildings, elevators, boilers, and certain industries subject to state laws and regulations for the protection of employees and the public.
Examples of the work
Plans, organizes, administers and develops policy for a program of inspection and enforcement to provide safe and sanitary conditions and practices in buildings, elevators, boilers, mines and quarries, bedding, upholstery, and stuffed toy manufacturing plants, migrant labor camps and transportation facilities, and movie projection facilities. Directs a large investigative, technical, clerical, and administrative staff engaged in inspections or work related to inspection of buildings, elevators, industries whose operations directly affect public health and safety, migrant labor camps, and general employment conditions with respect to safety and sanitary practices.
Minimum qualifications
Eight years of administrative experience, including two years in the field of safety, sanitary inspection, and enforcement in an administrative, or supervisory capacity; 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.