Forensic Licensed Psychologist - MH pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 43043
- Class code
- 43043
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Forensic Licensed Psychologist - MH is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 43043.
- 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 04/26/1997.
What the state says the job is
This is practitioner level professional work providing psychological services programs at a Forensic Psychiatric Unit on the grounds of a Commonwealth mental health facility. An employee in this class performs independent and specialized work providing psychological services programs for forensic patients with a mental illness who have been placed through the criminal justice or corrections systems for diagnosis, evaluation and intensive treatment.
Examples of the work
Performs independent and specialized psychological services work in clinical and rehabilitation areas of a psychological services program for forensic patients with a mental illness who have been placed through the criminal justice or corrections systems for diagnosis, evaluation and intensive treatment. Studies assigned forensic patients' medical histories; evaluates patients' psychological strengths and weaknesses; interviews patients; observes their behavior, and selects, administers and interprets intelligence, neuropsychological, social development, achievement, competency, interest, personality and other projective/objective psychological tests to diagnose patient psychological disorde ...
Minimum qualifications
Possession of a current license to practice psychology issued by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology.
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.