About NJ Civil Service Navigator
NJ Civil Service Navigator: independent civic tech resource for NJ civil service job specifications, workforce data, and career exploration.
What Is NJ Civil Service Navigator?
NJ Civil Service Navigator is an independent civic technology resource that makes NJ Civil Service Commission data accessible and searchable. The site provides free public access to 5,689 official job specifications, payroll data from 39 state agencies and 16 independent authorities, salary schedules, and career exploration tools.
Who Made This?
NJ Civil Service Navigator was created by Gavin Rozzi, a New Jersey-based data journalist and civic technologist. The project is open source and available on GitHub.
Data Sources
All job specification data comes directly from the NJ Civil Service Commission. Payroll data comes from NJ YourMoney. Salary schedules come from the annual Compensation Compendium. Learn more about our data sources.
Read our data transparency policy for details on methodology and data quality. View our accessibility statement.
What this is
I built NJ Civil Service Navigator so that New Jersey's civil service records can be read in one place. The Civil Service Commission already publishes most of what is here. What is hard is holding the pieces next to each other, because a job specification lives on one site, the salary schedule that prices it on another, and the statute that decides whether the title is examined for or appointed at will somewhere else again. The joining is the work.
It is an independent project. It is not affiliated with the Civil Service Commission, not endorsed by it, and nobody at the State reviews anything before it goes up. If you need an official answer about your own job, your own list or your own appeal, the Commission is the place to get it. Use this site to understand the record and to find the citation, then take the citation to them.
What it adds to the published record
Most of the words on a specification page are the Commission's own, republished as they were published, with a link back to the source. The part that is mine is everything around that text.
| Layer | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Job titles | 6,740 title codes the Civil Service Commission lists. 5,689 of them have a published specification behind them; 1,051 are codes CSC names without publishing a document, and those pages say so rather than looking empty. |
| Pay | Each published salary schedule, joined to the titles paid on it, with the step values and the date the rates took effect. Frozen schedules are labelled as frozen, back to the year they stopped moving. |
| Workforce | State payroll for 73,092 employees across 39 agencies, and a separate pipeline for 19,416 people at 16 independent authorities, which are paid outside the central system and are never merged into the State figures. |
| Law | 180 sections of N.J.S.A. Title 11A and 319 of N.J.A.C. Title 4A, in full, cross-linked in both directions so a rule names the statute it was adopted under and a statute names the rules that implement it. |
| Local employers | Which New Jersey counties, municipalities, authorities, libraries and boards have adopted Title 11A, with pension membership figures for the ones that report separately. |
Each of those has its own publisher, its own update schedule and its own known gaps, and the data sources page lists all of them with the date each one covers. The two legal corpora have their own front doors at Title 11A and Title 4A, and the employer directory is at local civil service employers.
What the site will not do
It does not track job openings. There is no vacancy feed here and no page ever says a position is available, because I have no reliable way to know that and a stale posting would waste somebody's application. What the site can honestly tell you is which route a title is filled through and which employers use it.
It publishes the law as published, including where the law reads oddly. One layoff rule (N.J.A.C. 4A:8-1.4) contains a sentence that looks like it is missing a word, and the text on this site is byte-identical to the source anyway. A silent tidy-up of a rule about which jobs survive a layoff would be the worst possible place to start editing.
It does not invent dates. A "last updated" figure comes from a real signal, either the Commission's own revision date or a change this site actually recorded, and the build refuses to write a page rather than stamp today's date on something that did not change. Pages with no honest date carry none.
If something here is wrong
Some of it will be. The corpus is large, parts of it are recovered from decades-old pages, and a few joins are judgement calls that are documented as judgement calls. Tell me through the contact page and say which page and which figure, and I will either fix it or explain on the page why it reads the way it does. The editorial policy covers how the written articles are sourced and reviewed.
Who makes it
Gavin Rozzi, working on this alone. My other work is at gavinrozzi.com. The site is free to use and carries some advertising to cover what it costs to run, with the details in the privacy policy.