Governor's Office

Governor's Office is a substantial state agency, employing 208 people statewide.

The most common title is Aide To The Governor (75% of staff), followed by Executive Assistant 1 and Executive Assistant 2. Median pay is $100,000, about 18% above the statewide median. About 80% of its employees are mapped to a civil service title specification, lower than most state agencies because it employs more agency-specific or unclassified roles.

Median tenure is 0.5 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 3%).

About Governor's Office

This payroll line is the Governor's Office: the policy, counsel, communications, scheduling and intergovernmental staff who work directly for the governor.

Nearly the whole office is carried under one title, Aide to the Governor, which is a catch-all rather than a description of any particular job. Policy advisors, counsel and communications staff can all appear under it, so the title tells you very little about what any individual does, and salaries within it vary a lot for that reason. Median tenure is the shortest of any agency on this site by a wide margin, which is what the payroll looks like after a change of administration: the Governor's Office roster turns over with the governor. Almost none of these positions are competitive civil service appointments.

Who works here

These are the titles that carry the most people on this payroll. Each one links to its civil service specification, which sets out the duties, the minimum requirements and the salary range.

• Aide To The Governor157 employees
  75.5% of staff · median $95,000
• Executive Assistant 12 employees
  1.0% of staff · median $75,110 · CWA
• Executive Assistant 22 employees
  1.0% of staff · median $88,340 · CWA
• Executive Assistant 42 employees
  1.0% of staff · median $152,281 · CWA
• Federal Liaison Officer1 employee
  0.5% of staff · median $190,000
• Public Information Officer1 employee
  0.5% of staff · median $110,000
• Executive Assistant 31 employee
  0.5% of staff · median $127,826 · CWA
• Director Of Communications1 employee
  0.5% of staff · median $210,000 · IBEW

Aide To The Governor is a catch-all title used for very different jobs across agencies, so the median pay shown against it covers a wide mix of roles and does not describe a single position.

How pay is spread

Below are the quartile boundaries for this agency's salaries, with the statewide equivalents alongside them for reference.

The middle half of this agency's employees earn between $72,250 and $158,022, a ratio of 2.19 between the two quartiles. State government as a whole sits at 1.81, so pay here is stretched across a wider range than average, usually a sign of several distinct job families sharing one payroll line.

• Lowest recorded salary$55,000
• Lower quartile$72,250
  statewide $62,428
• Median salary$100,000
  statewide $84,796
• Upper quartile$158,022
  statewide $113,264
• Highest recorded salary$210,000

Based on 172 salaried records.

Union representation

Which contract covers a job decides its salary schedule, its step ladder and its grievance route. This is the union mix on this payroll.

• CWA7 employees
  3.4% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 3% of this agency's payroll records. The remainder are unclassified, exempt or managerial positions that sit outside a bargaining unit.

How long people stay

Tenure tells you something a salary table cannot: whether this is a place people arrive at or a place they stay.

Half of this agency's employees have been on the state payroll longer than 0.5 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 80% joined within the last five years, and 5% have twenty years or more behind them.

• Under 5 years104 employees
  80.0% of those with a hire date
• 5 to 10 years15 employees
  11.5% of those with a hire date
• 10 to 15 years3 employees
  2.3% of those with a hire date
• 15 to 20 years2 employees
  1.5% of those with a hire date
• 20 to 25 years2 employees
  1.5% of those with a hire date
• 25 years or more4 employees
  3.1% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 130 of this agency's 208 payroll records.

Civil service coverage

80% of this agency's payroll records carry a title that matches a published civil service specification. The rest are unclassified, exempt or agency-specific positions filled outside the competitive examination process, so the standard exam and eligible list route covers most but not all of the jobs here.

• Records matched to a specification167
• Records with no matching specification41
• Distinct civil service titles on the roster8

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 26th largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.3% of the state workforce.

Its nearest neighbours by headcount, for readers who want a like-for-like comparison.

• Board of the Public Utility251 employees
  median $103,187
• Department of State221 employees
  median $93,287
• Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness175 employees
  median $107,301
• Office of Administrative Law156 employees
  median $129,082