Director of Residential Unit Management, DHS pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 31500
- Class code
- 31500
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director of Residential Unit Management, DHS is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 31500.
- 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 08/01/2021.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative work directing the therapeutic and habilitative care programs in a state residential care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities (state center). An employee in this job administers the therapeutic and habilitative care programs for individuals residing in a state center. Work involves developing guidelines and procedures regarding the development and implementation of individual support plans; monitoring individual support plans and program services for compliance with regulations governing intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/ID); and managing and evaluating residential care and program services provided to all residential units within a state center to ensure the most effective implementation of individual support plans.
Examples of the work
• Manages the delivery of professional services such as education, social services, dual diagnosis programs, and other program services provided to individuals with intellectual disabilities. • Directs the development of progress reports for individuals in meeting their support plan goals and objectives, and evaluates the results of services rendered to individuals. • Ensures that all residential and program services are provided in a manner consistent with applicable rules and regulations. • Develops staffing procedures for residential staff and monitors overtime to ensure efficiency and adequate staffing in accordance with Act 102. • Performs the full range of supervisory duties.
Minimum qualifications
• One year as a Residential Services Unit Manager (commonwealth title); or • Four years of professional therapeutic experience in a residential program providing rehabilitative, restorative, or habilitative care program services for individuals with a developmental disability, including three years in a supervisory capacity, and a bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences, psychology, social work, education, nursing, business, or hospital administration; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes three years of professional supervisory therapeutic experience in a residential program providing rehabilitative, restorative, or habilitative care program services for i ...
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.