Retirement Benefits Specialist Supervisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 09556
- Class code
- 09556
- Pay scale group
- ST 07
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Retirement Benefits Specialist Supervisor is $60,538 to $92,010 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 09556.
- 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 10/11/2002.
What the state says the job is
This is supervisory and administrative work overseeing specialized and technical processes that include the calculation of benefits for those accounts that are non-routine and manual in the State Employees' (SERS) or Public School Employees' Retirement System (PSERS). An employee in this class supervises Retirement Benefits Specialists or staff in other related classifications engaged in the completion of highly complex, non-routine, and manual calculations on accounts for the payment of benefits in situations where normal processing is not possible. These situations may be due to legislative changes, court orders, tax levies and/or domestic relation orders. Duties include planning and prioritizing work and aiding the specialists in the interpretation of the State Employees' or Public School Employees' Retirement Code.
Examples of the work
Supervises Retirement Benefits Specialists in the calculation of non-routine and manual accounts for benefits payment. Provides training, evaluates training needs and requests further training or educational courses for agency staff. Ensures compliance with procedures relative to court orders and legislation affecting benefit payments. Calculates benefits for non-routine accounts that may not be processed utilizing the automated system. Interprets provisions of the Public School Employees' or State Employees' Retirement Codes, rules, regulations, and legal opinions as they apply to benefit payments and member accounts.
Minimum qualifications
One year as a Retirement Benefits Specialist; or One year as a Retirement Technician Supervisor; or A bachelor's degree and one year of technical experience in the processing of benefits payments; or An equivalent combination of experience and training, which included one year of technical experience in the processing of benefits payments.
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.