Director of Program Development and Management, Transportation pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 08530
- Class code
- 08530
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director of Program Development and Management, Transportation is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 08530.
- 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 07/31/2015.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible managerial work directing the Center for Program Development and Management in the Department of Transportation. The employee in this job is responsible for planning, developing and evaluating the department’s program planning and management activities. Work involves overseeing the resolution of transportation long range planning and short range programming issues with county and regional agencies. An important aspect of the work includes the development of more effective utilization of state and federal funds. Supervision is exercised over professional managerial and administrative staff. Work is performed with considerable independence and is reviewed by the Deputy Secretary for Planning through conferences and reports to determine program effectiveness.
Examples of the work
• Plans, organizes, and directs all Center for Program Development and Management activities. • Develops, recommends, and implements policies for department-wide program development and management. • Confers with other top level management officials, bureau directors, and district officials and various other technical personnel to review work priorities and resolve issues related to services provided by assigned staff. • Keeps abreast of overall program planning requirements in the department to determine which work should be granted various priorities for available staff development time.
Minimum qualifications
• Nine years of responsible management or staff work experience, which includes work in both of the following fields: (1) Public or private program management, (2) Government project and program planning and development, including five years in an administrative or supervisory capacity; and a bachelor’s degree; or • An 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.