Quality Assurance/Risk Management Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 43393
- Class code
- 43393
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Quality Assurance/Risk Management Specialist is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 43393.
- 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 09/01/1993.
What the state says the job is
This is professional staff work specializing in the quality assurance/risk management monitoring and evaluation of a facility wide system of patient care services, ensuring that services meet regulatory standards at a state mental hospital or restoration center. An employee in this class consults and collaborates with interdisciplinary clinical and nonclinical support staff in the monitoring and evaluation of the quality assurance and risk management program activities at a state mental hospital or restoration center. Work involves interpreting facility, Departmental, state and federal policies, regulations and legislation for quality of patient care services; analyzing, evaluating and summarizing quality assurance and risk management data; and identifying possible liability problems and issues of noncompliance with regulatory requirements.
Examples of the work
Interprets facility, Departmental, state and federal policies, regulations and legislation for quality of patient care services for facility staff and vendor services and provides input for the development of the facility's comprehensive quality assurance/risk management plan. Consults and collaborates with interdisciplinary clinical and nonclinical support staff engaged in monitoring and evaluating quality assurance and risk management program activities to assure the appropriateness and quality of patient care provided meets the regulatory requirements.
Minimum qualifications
Two years of professional experience as a member of a multiple disciplinary treatment team in a public or private health care facility and a bachelor's degree; or Two years of clinical experience in an human services agency, including one year of administrative, evaluative, or consultative experience in a health care program; and a bachelor's degree with major course work in social work, nursing, health care administration, behavioral sciences or a related field; or Any 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.