Therapeutic Activities Worker pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 31920
- Class code
- 31920
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Therapeutic Activities Worker is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 31920.
- 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 02/26/2020.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work in developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating therapeutic activities programs to improve, enhance, and retain participants’ highest levels of personal, psychosocial, and physical functioning and habilitation. An employee in this job collaborates with multi-disciplinary treatment teams for the purpose of developing the therapeutic segments of individual treatment plans including activities that overlap or combine various aspects of therapeutic recreation, occupational therapy, or vocational adjustment services.
Examples of the work
• Collaborates with multi-disciplinary treatment teams to design therapeutic activities segments of individual treatment plans. • Assesses individuals’ strengths and needs using assessment tools, interviews, interest surveys, care plan reviews, and other methods to develop and modify treatment goals and objectives. • Performs ongoing evaluations of individuals’ progress toward program goals and adapts activities to meet their changing needs.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree with major coursework in therapeutic recreation; physical education; vocational rehabilitation; vocational education or counseling; art, music, dance, or occupational therapies; or a related human services field; or • Four years of experience providing therapeutic activities for individuals with physical, medical, or cognitive disabilities; 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.