Life Safety Code Administrator pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 39280
- Class code
- 39280
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Life Safety Code Administrator is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 39280.
- 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 12/01/1981.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative work directing the Life Safety Code survey process in the Department of Health. The employee in this class formulates policies and directs the surveys of building plans, blueprints, and specifications of medical facilities for compliance with the Medicare and Medicaid Certification Program. Work includes reviewing and affixing signature to all reports and surveys as the Fire Authority for supervised health care facilities in the Commonwealth and encompasses the responsibility for approving new construction and renovations, and granting waivers in building plans. Work involves the review, analysis, and interpretation of publications, directives, correspondence, and policies to determine the effects and makes necessary changes in program operation.
Examples of the work
Determines and establishes a time frame for the timely implementation of Life Safety Code survey activity in the Department of Health for Safety Inspector surveys; coordinates hospital survey process with Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals reviews. Reviews health facility plans and issues occupancy permits pending the results of that review.
Minimum qualifications
Six years of experience in surveying for and consultation on Life Safety Code compliance and J.C.A.H. life safety requirements, one year of which must have been in an administrative capacity and one year of which must have been in health care facility construction. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training.
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.