Public Health Program Director pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 34640
- Class code
- 34640
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Public Health Program Director is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 34640.
- 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 03/16/2001.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work as a division chief managing multiple public health programs or as the Assistant Director, Bureau of Community Health Systems. An employee in this class functions as the chief of a division managing multiple public health programs with overall responsibility for planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and implementing public health programs which involve the provision of public health care services, the detection of disease conditions, and/or the prevention of various diseases to targeted populations through contracted providers or district staff or as the Assistant Director plans, organizes and directs the implementation of multiple public health programs for the Bureau of Community Health Systems to ensure programmatic consistency across health district lines.
Examples of the work
Manages, as division chief, multiple public health programs for the provision of public health care services, the detection of disease conditions and/or the prevention of various diseases to targeted population groups through contracted providers or district staff. Manages, as the Assistant Director, the integration of multiple public health programs for the Bureau of Community Health Systems, including those in school health, communicable disease, immunizations, chronic disease intervention, tuberculosis control, sexually transmitted disease, HIV/AIDS, health risk reduction, environmental health and maternal and child health, for consistency across and between health districts.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Public Health Program Manager; or Two years as a Public Health Program Administrator; or A bachelor's degree and four years of professional public health, health, allied health sciences, drug and alcohol or related experience; which includes two years of administrative, supervisory or consultative experience, which includes two years of administrative, supervisory or consultative experience; or A bachelor's degree and four years of professional experience in the development or evaluation of grants, contracts or programs for the provision of social, employment, environmental health, or health related services, which includes two years of administrative, supervisory or consultati ...
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.