Allegheny County, Pennsylvania / Retirement System / Executive Director
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
1 employees hold this title in Retirement System. Median total compensation for the role is $129,413, above the department median of $54,391.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Pittsburgh, PA area, the median wage for Chief Executives — about 1,660 people — is $216,060. Retirement System pays a median base salary of $129,413 for this role, 40% below that figure — about the 14th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Chief Executives across every employer in the Pittsburgh, PA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Retirement System’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Chief Executives — about 204,350 people — is $213,990. Retirement System’s median base salary is 40% below that national figure, about the 25th 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.
Median total compensation for this role at Retirement System is $129,413, 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 departments
Executive Director is held in 2 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania departments. In Retirement System, the median of $129,413 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Executive Director role in other Allegheny County, Pennsylvaniadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 16 jurisdictions. See Executive Director across all of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania →
Median total compensation for comparable Executive Directorroles 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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Executive Director/Retirement System
Source-specific fields
Walter W. Szymanski is a Executive Director at Retirement System. Records show a hire date of 11/4/2002. 2025 total compensation came to $129,413.