Juvenile Justice Facility Program Director, DHS pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 41860
- Class code
- 41860
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Juvenile Justice Facility Program Director, DHS is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 41860.
- 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 02/26/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is managerial work within the Department of Human Services (DHS) directing juvenile justice programs at a Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services (BJJS) facility for adjudicated delinquent youth. An employee in this job plans, organizes, and directs the treatment, rehabilitation, and social development programs of a youth forestry camp or a separate secure-treatment facility, or serves as a program director for treatment programs at a youth development center. Work involves developing and implementing local residential program policies and procedures and clinical treatment practices and participating in the development of overall BJJS program objectives and goals related to residential treatment and rehabilitation.
Examples of the work
• Develops programs and operational policies and procedures for the social development, behavior modification, treatment, and rehabilitation of adjudicated delinquent youth. • Directs the preparation and presentation of recommendations to the juvenile courts supporting the release, transfer, or retention of delinquent youth. • Explains facility programs and objectives to juvenile court judges, probation officers, police, social agencies, and community groups. • Directs the investigation of suspected and reported cases of alleged child abuse or other employee misconduct and takes appropriate action on substantiated cases.
Minimum qualifications
• Three years of professional counseling experience with delinquent, pre-delinquent, or socially maladjusted youth in an organized program, which includes two 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 two 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.