Forensic Vocational Adjustment Services Worker pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 31389
- Class code
- 31389
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Forensic Vocational Adjustment Services Worker is $55,316 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 31389.
- 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 08/19/1996.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work in the field of vocational adjustment services at Waymart SCI or a Regional Forensic Psychiatric Unit on the grounds of a Commonwealth mental health facility. An employee in this class designs, implements, and evaluates vocational adjustment segments of individual treatment program plans to further the comprehensive treatment/rehabilitation of forensic patients or inmates with a mental disability who have been placed through the criminal justice or corrections systems for diagnosis, evaluation and intensive treatment. The employee conducts formal patient assessments of functioning levels, strengths, and needs and formulates suggested methods for responding to assessed needs for presentation to a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
Examples of the work
Develops, implements, monitors and evaluates vocational adjustment segments of comprehensive individual patient treatment plans provided to forensic patients or inmates with a mental disability who have been placed through the criminal justice or corrections systems for diagnosis, evaluation and intensive treatment. Develops specifically planned vocational adjustment goals and objectives to implement the vocational adjustment segments of comprehensive individual treatment program plans. Contributes to vocational adjustment program planning and development.
Minimum qualifications
Graduation from a four year college or university with major course work in vocational rehabilitation, vocational education or counseling, or a related human services field; or Four years of experience in the field of vocational adjustment services for individuals with a mental or physical illness or disability; or Any 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.