Insurance Department Chief Hearing Examiner pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 07291
- Class code
- 07291
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Insurance Department Chief Hearing Examiner is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 07291.
- 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 09/01/1986.
What the state says the job is
This is managerial quasi-judicial work in planning and directing the Insurance Department's Administrative Hearings Office for adjudicating formal legal appeals. The employee in this class is responsible for planning, conducting and supervising employees who conduct administrative hearings, regarding appeals involving rate regulatory matters, agent and company disciplinary matters, policy form disapprovals, department interpretation and enforcement of insurance laws and regulations, workers' compensation classifications, company stock acquisitions, liquidation and solvency matters, consumer complaints, insurance agency terminations; and appeals from actions by the Commissioner's staff. Work involves scheduling hearings, deciding preliminary matters, holding pre-hearing conferences, and preparing adjudications.
Examples of the work
Plans, conducts, and supervises employees who conduct quasi-judicial administrative hearings involving appeals in rate regulatory matters, agent and company disciplinary matters, policy form disapprovals, department interpretation and enforcement of insurance laws and regulations, workers' compensation classifications, company stock acquisitions, liquidation and solvency matters, consumer complaints, insurance agency terminations; and appeals from actions by the Commissioner's staff. Presides as hearing officer at hearings, hears testimony, and rules on testimony and evidentiary points.
Minimum qualifications
Five years of experience in the practice of law, including at least one year of experience in the conduct of appellate and evidentiary 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.