Workers' Compensation Self Insurance Chief pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 70172
- Class code
- 70172
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Workers' Compensation Self Insurance Chief is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 70172.
- 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 11/04/2021.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative work directing a state-wide program for Pennsylvania employers to self-insure for coverage of their workers' compensation liability. The employee in this job plans, develops, directs, and coordinates a state-wide certification and review program for Pennsylvania employers to operate as self-insured, either singly or in pools, under the Workers' Compensation Act. Work involves establishing financial standards for self-insurance; and directing the development and maintenance of standards and certification criteria for employers to self-insure or to form pools for self-insurance. Work includes directing a program to review the solvency of employers, determine their financial ability to pay potential workers' compensation liability, and establish and regulate the maintenance of conditions for employers to self-insure.
Examples of the work
• Plans, develops, directs, and coordinates a statewide certification and review program to ensure the ability of self-insuring employers to pay potential Workers' Compensation claims. • Develops, implements, and maintains criteria for the certification of employers as self-insurers. • Develops, implements, and maintains a program to receive, review, and evaluate detailed annual reports from group self-insurance and the renewal applications of individual self-insurers. • Directs the investigation of reported defaults by self-insurers on their Workers' Compensation liability and initiates appropriate action, including the use of security to pay defaulted claims.
Minimum qualifications
• Four years of professional experience in the field of insurance underwriting, insurance claims administration, or self-insurance program management which includes two years of experience in workers' compensation, and a bachelor's degree; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training which includes two years of experience in worker’s compensation.
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.