Quality Assurance Risk Management Director pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 43389
- Class code
- 43389
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Quality Assurance Risk Management Director is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 43389.
- 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 11/14/2006.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative work directing quality assurance/risk management (QA/RM) program operations for clinical accountability within a state treatment facility or community-based service delivery system. An employee in this job plans, organizes, and directs the work of an integrated, interdisciplinary, professional staff that monitors and evaluates a QA/RM program within the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) for a state mental health or intellectual disability facility, or a region within DPW’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or Office of Developmental Programs; the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs’, Bureau of Veterans Homes; or a Department of Corrections forensic treatment center located within a state correctional institution.
Examples of the work
Plans, develops, directs, and evaluates an integrated facility-wide, regional or departmental interdisciplinary clinical and non-clinical QA/RM support program. Directs, coordinates and oversees the development, implementation and outcomes of clinical practices and mental health and substance abuse services delivered by state mental hospitals, managed care organizations or community-based programs. Develops benchmarks and standards for state hospitals, community-based programs, state veterans’ home long-term care facilities or managed care organizations to meet department goals.
Minimum qualifications
One year of experience as a Quality Assurance/Risk Management Coordinator; or Two years of experience as a Quality Assurance/Risk Management Specialist; or Four years of professional experience as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team in a public or private healthcare facility, and a bachelor’s degree; or Four years of clinical experience in a human services agency, including three years of professional, evaluative, consultative, or supervisory work in a healthcare program, and a bachelor’s degree; or An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes four years of professional, evaluative, consultative, or supervisory work in a healthcare program.
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.