School Psychologist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 43042
- Class code
- 43042
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for School Psychologist is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 43042.
- 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 01/24/2005.
What the state says the job is
This is practitioner level professional work as a school psychologist at a state-owned institution that serves school age children, which is covered by the Pennsylvania Public School Code. An employee in this job performs independent and specialized work in providing educational, behavioral, developmental, therapeutic, remedial, and counseling services for school age children at state-owned institutions. Work involves the diagnosis of the individual student needs, the planning, development, and implementation of student therapies, the evaluation of individual student progress and the formulation of individual student prognoses. Important aspects of this work include the selection and application of psycho-therapeutic treatments for school age children including determining the frequency, intensity and duration of applied therapies.
Examples of the work
Selects, administers, scores and interprets a wide range of psychological diagnostic measures and employs other diagnostic techniques on school age children to evaluate intellectual functioning, personality structure, interests, aptitudes, and related psychological factors. Establishes reliability, validity and confidence limits for psychological measures used for school age children. Performs individual, group or family counseling, or other therapeutic procedures and techniques of a psychological nature with school age children in a multi-disciplinary/case management setting.
Minimum qualifications
Possession of a school psychologist certification issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Education or another state. CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT: For Scranton State School for the Deaf: demonstrated ability to communicate through American Sign Language and American manual alphabet at the intermediate sign communication level as determined by the Sign Language Communication Proficiency Interview evaluation.
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.
Nearby classes in Pennsylvania
School Psychologist in other states
| State | Minimum | Maximum | Per year at full time |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | $348 | $12,848 | $4,181 to $154,174 |
| Illinois | $77,520 | $118,512 | $77,520 to $118,512 |
| Maryland | $99,442 | $156,822 | $99,442 to $156,822 |
| Wisconsin | $24.14 | $64.93 | $50,211 to $135,054 |
Each state publishes its own range for a classification with this exact title. Duties, grade structures and bargaining units differ between states, so read each class page before comparing.