Human Services Hearings Officer Supervisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 48721
- Class code
- 48721
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Human Services Hearings Officer Supervisor is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 48721.
- 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 01/01/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and supervisory work in the hearing and adjudication of appeals associated with DHS and PDA programs, benefits, and services. An employee in this job supervises, conducts, and adjudicates quasi-judicial appeal hearings regarding departmental decisions and actions impacting individuals or entities applying for or receiving program services and benefits. Work involves assigning and reviewing examinations of appeal case records and documents, confirming scheduled appeal hearing dates and locations with involved parties, and taking and recording testimony during the appeal hearing process.
Examples of the work
• Supervises staff engaged in conducting hearings for the adjudication of appeals initiated by appellants, individuals acting on behalf of an appellant, nursing homes, doctors, other professional organizations, or practitioners aggrieved by DHS and PDA decisions, actions, or policies. • Oversees pre-hearing conferences and hearings on various issues for appellants of other commonwealth agency programs and services with interagency agreements, such as Act 534, Administrative Disqualification Hearings (ADH), Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); and for precedent-setting cases.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Human Services Hearings Officer (commonwealth title); or • Four years of professional interviewing, investigative, or legal work experience which includes one year of experience presiding over adjudicative hearings; and a bachelor's degree; or • One year of professional interviewing, investigative, or legal work experience presiding over adjudicative hearings; and graduation from a school of law accredited by the American Bar Association; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes one year of professional interviewing, investigative, or legal work experience presiding over adjudicative hearings.
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.