Nursing Director pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 30460
- Class code
- 30460
- Pay scale group
- ST 12
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- P3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Nursing Director is $117,282 to $178,231 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 30460.
- 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 overall administration of the nursing services operations at a Commonwealth facility for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability. An employee in this job plans, directs, and administers nursing services involving a diverse program of care and treatment; in-service nursing education and training; specialized nursing in quality assurance, improvement, risk management, infection control functions, or acute, forensic, geriatric, or psychiatric clinical nursing care; or mental health nursing care. Work involves planning, directing, administering, managing, and coordinating facility wide nursing services.
Examples of the work
• Serves as Nursing Director at a state hospital, restoration center, state center for people with intellectual disabilities, or state veterans’ home. • Oversees facility wide operations of nursing services, including care and treatment; clinical services; in-service nursing education and training; and specialized nursing in quality assurance, improvement, risk management, infection control, psychiatric clinical nursing functions, geriatrics, acute nursing care and services, forensic mental health nursing care, and the required employee examination, immunization, and emergency health care services coordination programs.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Nurse Manager 2 (commonwealth title) providing care and services for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or development disability; or • Nine years of professional nursing experience, including three years in a managerial capacity providing 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.