Youth Development Counselor Supervisor pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 41820
- Class code
- 41820
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- F5
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Youth Development Counselor Supervisor is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 41820.
- 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 supervisory and professional counseling work in the rehabilitation and social development of court adjudicated youth at a state operated facility. An employee in this job plans, organizes, and supervises an integrated rehabilitative services program for court adjudicated and often aggressive youth in a residential unit at a state operated facility. Supervision is exercised over Youth Development Counselors and Juvenile Justice Specialists/Supervisors assigned to the residential unit who are engaged in supervising court adjudicated youths' treatment, educational, recreational, and social activities; preparing records and reports of court adjudicated youths’ rehabilitation and social development progress; and implementing discharge plans.
Examples of the work
• Supervises counselors responsible for orienting court adjudicated youth to the facility, conducting home conferences, and providing treatment services, such as individual, group, and family counseling; crisis intervention; constructive discipline; and instruction in rehabilitative treatment, recreation, social development, and educational activities. • Supervises the coordination and implementation of integrated treatment and service programs for the rehabilitation of court adjudicated youth at a state operated facility.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of experience as a Youth Development Counselor (Commonwealth title); or • One year of professional counseling experience with court adjudicated or socially maladjusted individuals in an organized program, 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 one year of professional counseling experience 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.