Youth Development Counselor Manager pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 41830
- Class code
- 41830
- Pay scale group
- ST 09
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Youth Development Counselor Manager is $78,925 to $119,844 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 41830.
- 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 02/27/2025.
What the state says the job is
This is administrative and managerial professional counseling work directing a rehabilitation and social development program for court adjudicated youth at a state operated facility. An employee in this job plans, organizes, and directs the 24-hour residential care and treatment program for court adjudicated and often aggressive youth in two or more residential units at a state operated facility. Work involves directing the development and implementation of case management plans for court adjudicated youth in accordance with the guidelines of the facility's Master Case Planning System. Work includes supervising Youth Development Counselor Supervisors responsible for coordinating and implementing integrated care and treatment and service programs for the rehabilitation of court adjudicated youth within single residential units.
Examples of the work
• Plans, organizes, and directs residential care, treatment, social development, and rehabilitation programs for court adjudicated youth at a state operated facility. • Directs the development and implementation of the individual case management plan for each assigned court adjudicated youth. • Directs individual, group, and family counseling; constructive discipline; security; instruction; recreation; and residential care. • Provides oversight of the delivery of quality service to treat and rehabilitate each assigned court adjudicated youth. • Administers disciplinary measures in complex situations and follows up on all disciplinary problems and investigations.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Youth Development Counselor Supervisor (Commonwealth title); or • Two years of professional counseling experience with court adjudicated or socially maladjusted individuals in an organized program, one of which was supervisory, and a bachelor’s degree in the behavioral sciences, special education, juvenile justice, or criminal justice; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes two years of professional counseling experience, one of which was supervisory, with court adjudicated or socially maladjusted individuals in an organized program
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.