Wildlife Habitat Management Program Chief pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 63030
- Class code
- 63030
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Wildlife Habitat Management Program Chief is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 63030.
- 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 08/31/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative work directing statewide wildlife habitat management programs for a division within the Bureau of Wildlife Habitat Management, Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC). An employee in this job serves as a division chief and is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating a major statewide environmental planning, land conservation, or wildlife resource management program. Work involves developing program goals, objectives, and priorities; evaluating program effectiveness; developing, recommending, and implementing wildlife habitat management rules, regulations, policies, and procedures; interpreting technical rules, regulations, and procedures for staff and the public; ensuring program compliance with agency and bureau goals; developing and managing program budgets; and recommending legislative changes regarding program activities.
Examples of the work
• Directs, through subordinate program coordinators or supervisors, the development, implementation, and evaluation of a statewide environmental planning, land protection and conservation, or wildlife resource management program. • Directs statewide environmental impact assessment and wildlife habitat protection programs. • Directs, plans, and administers a comprehensive oil, gas, leasing compliance, and mineral resource management program on state game lands. • Directs research efforts into new environmental and wildlife data sources, methodologies, and techniques to improve the development or review of environmental planning or wildlife resource plans and planning policies.
Minimum qualifications
• Four years of professional natural resource management experience that includes two years of experience in land acquisition or land management work, and a bachelor’s degree in natural resource management, biology, forestry, ecology, geosciences, environmental sciences, or a closely related field; or • Four years of professional natural resource management experience that includes two years of experience in land acquisition or land management work, and four years of paraprofessional or technical experience in natural resource management.
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.