Executive Director, State Civil Service Commission pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 05090
- Class code
- 05090
- Pay scale group
- ST 14
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Executive Director, State Civil Service Commission is $152,685 to $186,309 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 05090.
- 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 04/15/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is highly professional, administrative, and senior level managerial work in planning, directing, implementing, overseeing, supervising, and executing operations of the State Civil Service Commission (SCSC). The employee in this job serves as Chief Executive Officer for the agency and is primarily responsible for planning, directing, implementing, overseeing, supervising, and executing SCSC operations to ensure compliance with, adherence to, and support of applicable provisions and requirements of the commonwealth’s civil service employment and veterans’ preference laws, rules, policies, and regulations.
Examples of the work
• Plans, directs, implements, oversees, supervises, and executes all aspects of SCSC policy development and administration to ensure compliance with and adherence to applicable provisions of the commonwealth’s civil service employment and veterans’ preference laws, rules, policies, and regulations. • Plans, directs, and evaluates the performance of SCSC operations, policies, procedures, and requirements. • Consults with and serves as policy advisor to the State Civil Service Commissioners on merit system and all related matters. • Determines the content and emphasis of policy recommendations submitted to the State Civil Service Commissioners.
Minimum qualifications
• Eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in public human resource administration that includes five (5) years of experience in directing and managing a major public sector human resources program within a central personnel agency, or directing and managing a human resource management program in a large agency with a wide variety of programs. In both areas, experience must have included extensive knowledge, application, or administration of merit system standards; and a bachelor's degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes five (5) years directing and managing a major public sector human resources program.
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.