Nurse Manager 1 pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 30440
- Class code
- 30440
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- P3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Nurse Manager 1 is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 30440.
- 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 09/05/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative nursing work in the management and coordination of nursing care and treatment at a Commonwealth facility for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability. An employee in this job serves as the nursing manager in charge of the nursing care operations in a semi-autonomous unit such as geriatric care, forensic, or other specialized nursing care and treatment unit; or manages, coordinates, and evaluates a major component of nursing services operations. Employees oversee the continuity of nursing care and services to ensure nursing care and treatment is provided consistent with the policies, standards, treatment plans, and procedures of professional nursing practice and the facility.
Examples of the work
• Plans, organizes, directs, coordinates, and evaluates nursing care, treatment, and services in a Commonwealth facility for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability. • Plans, organizes, directs, coordinates, and evaluates nursing care and treatment operations in a semi-autonomous unit such as geriatric care, acute care, forensic care, developmental disability care, or other specialized care and treatment unit at a state hospital, restoration center, state center for people with intellectual disabilities, or state veterans’ home.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years as a Registered Nurse Supervisor or three years as a Registered Nurse Instructor (commonwealth titles) in a facility providing care and services for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability; or • Six years of professional nursing experience, which includes one year in a supervisory or consultative capacity providing nursing care and services for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability; and a bachelor's degree in nursing, nursing education, or nursing administration.
Special requirements
• All positions require active authorization to practice as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania. • All employees possessing an active temporary practice permit must obtain licensure as a Registered Nurse within the one (1) year period defined by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing.
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.