Interstate Compact Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 40652
- Class code
- 40652
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Interstate Compact Specialist is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 40652.
- 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 08/06/2001.
What the state says the job is
This is professional social services work in support of the Interstate Compact on Juveniles (ICJ), Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (ICAMA), or comparable programs operated by the Office of Children, Youth and Families (OCYF). An employee in this class is responsible for reviewing, analyzing, processing, coordinating, and monitoring interstate placement and supervision referrals to ensure compliance with Pennsylvania adoption law, interstate compact programs, Departmental policies and procedures and applicable international, federal and state laws. Work involves the approval and disapproval of adoptions and placements of interstate and intercountry children with parents, adoptive parents, or relatives.
Examples of the work
Reviews child placement referrals for appropriateness of the child's needs in compliance with laws and regulations using home studies, consents, surrenders, court orders, social summaries and interstate compact forms. Approves or denies the placement of a child into or out of the state for adoption, foster care, parent/relative care, residential care or juvenile supervision. Coordinates the Medicaid for Interstate Title IV-E and non IV-E eligible children. Coordinates and assists in the return to home state authorities of children who run away or abscond to or from another state to ensure legal requirements are met.
Minimum qualifications
A bachelor's degree which includes 12 credits in the social or behavioral sciences and one year of paraprofessional human services work experience in a public or private agency; or An equivalent combination of paraprofessional human services work experience and training that includes successful completion of 12 college credits in the social or behavioral sciences.
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.