Allegheny County, Pennsylvania / Jail / Correctional Officer
Job-title file
Supervise and maintain custody of incarcerated individuals, enforce facility rules, and keep the facility secure.
562 employees hold this title in Jail. Median total compensation for the role is $86,041, above the department median of $83,172.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 562 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Pittsburgh, PA area, the median wage for Correctional Officers and Jailers — about 1,160 people — is $60,540. Jail pays a median base salary of $78,570 for this role, 30% above that figure — about the 68th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Correctional Officers and Jailers across every employer in the Pittsburgh, PA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Jail’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Correctional Officers and Jailers — about 380,500 people — is $58,940. Jail’s median base salary is 33% above that national figure, about the 77th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Pittsburgh, PA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 426 of 562 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Jail is $86,041, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 16 jurisdictions. In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the median of $86,041 ranks #3 of 16. See Correctional Officer across all of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania →
Median total compensation for comparable Correctional Officerroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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At Jail, Carla J Bell serves as a Correctional Officer. Records show a hire date of 12/27/1994. Their 2023 pay totaled $159,366.
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At Jail, Angela Mcquaide serves as a Correctional Officer. Records show a hire date of 5/12/1998. Their 2025 pay totaled $157,863.
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Todd M Bradley is a Correctional Officer at Jail. Records show a hire date of 3/11/2001. 2025 total compensation came to $155,790.
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Scott J Didolce works as a Correctional Officer for Jail. Their hire date on record is 7/23/2006. Scott earned $153,927 in 2025.
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At Jail, Shawn M Nalley serves as a Correctional Officer. Records show a hire date of 4/30/2017. Their 2025 pay totaled $152,391.
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Kristy A Defelice works as a Correctional Officer for Jail. Their hire date on record is 11/16/2003. Kristy earned $152,264 in 2025.
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James P Dean is a Correctional Officer at Jail. Records show a hire date of 2/13/2011. 2025 total compensation came to $152,016.
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Stephen Finney is a Correctional Officer at Jail. Records show a hire date of 9/30/2018. 2025 total compensation came to $151,463.
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At Jail, Brian A Kelly serves as a Correctional Officer. Records show a hire date of 9/21/2014. Their 2025 pay totaled $151,298.