Vocational Services Worker pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 31820
- Class code
- 31820
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Vocational Services Worker is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 31820.
- 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 11/20/2025.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work providing vocational services for patients with an intellectual disability or a mental health diagnosis. An employee in this job evaluates, recommends, implements, and monitors the vocational segments of patients’ comprehensive program plans. Work involves conducting formal patient assessments of functioning levels, strengths, and needs; developing patient goals; implementing vocational plans; and delivering vocational workshops and all other patient-employee work programs. Work includes monitoring, evaluating, and reporting patient progress toward achieving program goals to the interdisciplinary team; selecting vocational activities to meet individual needs; and adapting vocational activities to the changing needs of the patient. Work may include training and directing non-professional staff in the delivery of vocational services.
Examples of the work
• Evaluates, recommends, implements, and monitors the vocational segments of comprehensive patient program plans. • Develops patient vocational program descriptions and goals. • Provides individual instruction, direction, and support to patients throughout their vocational programs. • Directs and instructs aides in the conduct of vocational activities, such as shop activities; horticultural activities; furniture repair; patient worker activities; sub-component assembly; and materials handling, collating, sorting, and packaging. • Attends interdisciplinary team meetings and provides recommendations regarding the use and benefits of specific vocational methods in the patient’s program plans.
Minimum qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree in vocational rehabilitation, vocational education, vocational counseling, or a related human services field; or • Four years of paraprofessional experience providing vocational services to individuals with physical, medical, or intellectual disabilities; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Special requirements
• Certain positions require possession of an active motor vehicle license.
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.