Juvenile Justice Regional Director, DHS pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 41875
- Class code
- 41875
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Juvenile Justice Regional Director, DHS is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 41875.
- 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 professional, administrative work within the Department of Human Services (DHS) managing, directing, and coordinating juvenile justice programs for adjudicated delinquent youth for an assigned region within the Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services (BJJS). An employee in this job plans, organizes, coordinates, and directs comprehensive treatment, social development, and rehabilitation programs for delinquent youth for an assigned regional office. Work involves evaluating and establishing program goals, objectives, and standards; interpreting federal and state juvenile delinquency and children and youth legislation, regulations and departmental policies and procedures; developing regional staffing standards; and overseeing safety and security functions.
Examples of the work
• Establishes goals, objectives, and standards in (or using) the Master Case Planning System for the treatment and rehabilitation of delinquent youth. • Develops and implements region-wide programmatic policies and procedures. • Coordinates and evaluates comprehensive and specialized social development, behavior modification, clinical treatment, rehabilitative services, and daily living activities programs. • Confers with juvenile court judges, probation officers, police, social services agencies, and interested individuals and community groups on juvenile justice issues.
Minimum qualifications
• Five years of professional counseling experience with delinquent, pre-delinquent, or socially maladjusted youth in an organized program, which includes four years of professional managerial 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 four years of professional managerial experience.
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.