Juvenile Justice Complex Director pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 41870
- Class code
- 41870
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Juvenile Justice Complex Director is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 41870.
- 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 05/15/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and managerial work directing juvenile justice programs and the overall operation of a facility complex for adjudicated delinquent youth within the Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services (BJJS) in the Department of Human Services (DHS). An employee in this job plans, organizes, and coordinates the facility operations and the treatment, rehabilitation, and social development programs of several youth forestry camps, secure treatment facilities, or youth development centers.
Examples of the work
• Develops and implements administrative and operational policies and procedures related to staffing, training, facilities management, information systems, and safety for the facility complex. • Directs facility complex staff providing administrative support and program delivery. • Directs the development of activities, including social development, behavior modification, treatment, and rehabilitation, for adjudicated delinquent youth. • Manages professional staff engaged in planning and providing clinical treatment, counseling, rehabilitation, and recreational activities to adjudicated delinquent youth.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Juvenile Justice Facility Program Director, DHS (commonwealth title); or • Four years of professional counseling experience with delinquent, pre-delinquent, or socially maladjusted youth in an organized program, which includes three years of professional supervisory experience, and a bachelor’s degree in the behavioral sciences, special education, juvenile delinquency, or criminal justice; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes three years of professional supervisory experience counseling delinquent, pre-delinquent, or socially maladjusted youth in an organized program.
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.