State Workers' Insurance Fund Claims Adjuster pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 70351
- Class code
- 70351
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for State Workers' Insurance Fund Claims Adjuster is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 70351.
- 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 07/18/2022.
What the state says the job is
This is advanced technical work in the processing, review, investigation, and payment of workers’ compensation and occupational disease claims administered by SWIF. An employee in this job is responsible for obtaining, verifying, and evaluating information to determine eligibility for workers’ compensation and occupational disease claims to include the most complex and catastrophic injury claims. Work may also include the processing, review, investigation, and disbursement of funds for the federal Black Lung Benefits Act and Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act benefit claims. Work is reviewed by a SWIF Claims Supervisor for completeness of assignments, appropriate analysis of information, development of sound recommendations, and case handling decisions.
Examples of the work
• Investigates, processes, and manages work-related disability/injury claims for determining compensability for claims that have anticipated disability periods in excess of eight weeks or are the most complex work-related claims and injuries for employees of SWIF policyholders. • Reviews and evaluates injury, medical, investigatory, and related reports and data to render initial acceptance or denial of claims in accordance with established guidelines and within the respective authority level. • Sets claims file monetary reserves within assigned authority for potential incurred losses and manages claims against such reserves.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a SWIF Claims Representative (commonwealth title); or • One year of technical work in the processing, review, investigation, and payment of workers’ compensation insurance claims in the insurance industry; or • An 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.