Physician General Staff Assistant pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 34655
- Class code
- 34655
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Physician General Staff Assistant is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 34655.
- 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 08/04/2017.
What the state says the job is
This is professional public health policy analysis and development work as the Special Assistant to the Physician General. The employee in this job serves as program and policy advisor on behalf of the Physician General to cabinet level officials and stakeholders in the commonwealth on health policy matters. Work involves identifying medical and public health issues, formulating policy and providing policy direction on behalf of the Physician General, and developing positions for the Physician General on health policy. Work also involves developing and providing presentations on behalf of the Physician General on health policy issues, providing advice and guidance on health policy issues, and representing the Physician General on various boards.
Examples of the work
• Identifies medical and public health problems that impact the commonwealth’s public health programs and related service programs such as human services, drug and alcohol, education, corrections, or aging. • Recommends and formulates health policies and strategic plans to address medical and public health problems. • On behalf of the Physician General, the Governor’s Office, and other cabinet level officials, advises and informs agencies, committees, task forces, and other groups on health policy issues.
Minimum qualifications
• Three years of professional health policy analysis and planning experience, and a master’s degree in public health, health administration, health policy, or a related field; or • An 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.