Youth Development Activities Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 41850
- Class code
- 41850
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Youth Development Activities Specialist is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 41850.
- 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 01/12/1995.
What the state says the job is
This is professional work developing and providing programs for leisure time activities for youth committed at a Commonwealth facility for adjudicated delinquent youth. An employee in this class develops, schedules, coordinates, and conducts leisure time activity programs involving athletics, sports, games, avocational interests, creative arts and crafts, and social recreation for individual and/or groups of youth participants. Employees participate in program planning, organization, and assessment, and in the supervision of youth participating in the activity. Programs are designed to motivate and provide opportunities for expression of youth's talents through individual and/or group participation, which may be of entertaining or therapeutic value, or for avocational development.
Examples of the work
Develops, schedules, coordinates, conducts, and evaluates leisure time activity programs including supervising and instructing youth participants in athletics, sports, games, recreation, a vocational, and arts and crafts programs. Assists professional staff by participating in special needs program planning, organization, and assessment. Prepares assessments of individual youth's leisure time needs, interests, preferences, degree of participation, and other relevant information useful in the evaluation of the individual youths treatment plan.
Minimum qualifications
A bachelor's degree with major course work in recreation or physical education; or Four years of experience working in an organized recreation, athletic, avocational or arts and crafts program; or Any 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.