Financial Policy Advisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 08948
- Class code
- 08948
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Financial Policy Advisor is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 08948.
- 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 03/31/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is highly responsible financial policy analysis and development work in the Department of Human Services (DHS) Budget Office. The employee in this job is responsible for fiscal policy analysis and development work that involves conducting studies of current policy issues related to DHS programs and developing fiscal policy recommendations to address those problems, as well as the social, economic, and fiscal implications of alternatives. Work involves meeting with high level executive and administrative personnel to gather information and resolve issues related to departmental conflicts in fiscal policy and advising executive staff of findings and alternatives.
Examples of the work
• Assists the Fiscal Management Director and executive staff in preparing fiscal policies pertaining to the financial management of the department. • Recommends strategies to create greater efficiency of operations within the department. • Participates in and leads workgroups to establish fiscal policies for new or changing departmental programs and proposes strategies to satisfy both the programmatic and fiscal needs of the impacted programs. • Provides fiscal assistance to the Office of Policy Development and Office of Legislative Affairs during legislative bill analysis and policy development activities. • Provides financial advisory and consultative services to program offices.
Minimum qualifications
• Five years of professional experience in fiscal management or a closely related field such as economic analysis, fiscal planning, or budget systems analysis, and a bachelor’s degree in business management, finance, accounting, or a closely related field; 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.