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Higher Education

40 employees · NJ state government agency

Higher Education employs 40 people, a modest but not tiny state agency workforce.

The most common title is Assistant Division Director (13% of staff), followed by Auditor 1 and Education Planner. Median pay is $98,127, about 16% above the statewide median. About 63% 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 4.0 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 50%).

About Higher Education

This payroll line covers the state's higher education oversight staff. The label is a historical one, and the work sits with New Jersey's higher education agency: institutional oversight, planning and the administration of state student aid and grant programs.

The roster is small and weighted towards audit and planning. Auditors review institutional and grant spending, education planners handle policy and program work, and division-level directors carry an unusually large share of a payroll this size. Because the agency is small and its titles are widely used elsewhere in state government, very few of them are distinctive to this line.

Who works here

Ranked by headcount, these are the jobs that make up most of this agency's payroll. Follow any title through to its specification for the duties and requirements behind it.

7 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 19 in all. Assistant Division Director, Government Representative 2 are catch-all titles used for very different jobs across agencies, so the median pay shown against them covers a wide mix of roles and does not describe a single position.

How pay is spread

Median pay on its own hides how wide an agency's ladder is. These are the quartiles, set against the same points in the statewide distribution.

The middle half of this agency's employees earn between $84,213 and $127,147, a ratio of 1.51 between the two quartiles. State government as a whole sits at 1.80, so this agency's pay is bunched more tightly than average, which tends to happen where one or two large titles carry most of the staff.

  • Lowest recorded salary$66,511
  • Lower quartile$84,213
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$98,127
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$127,147
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$170,000

Based on 40 salaried records, with 2 statistical outliers excluded from the quartile calculation.

Union representation

Bargaining unit representation across the agency. The unit a title falls into determines which salary schedule it is paid from.

  • CWA20 employees
    50.0% of the agency
  • IBEW5 employees
    12.5% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 63% of this agency's payroll records. The remainder are unclassified, exempt or managerial positions that sit outside a bargaining unit.

How long people stay

The length of service profile below is worth reading alongside the pay figures, because a long-tenured workforce sits higher on its step ladders.

Half of this agency's employees have been on the state payroll longer than 4.0 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 62% joined within the last five years, and 0% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years24 employees
    61.5% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years10 employees
    25.6% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years4 employees
    10.3% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years1 employee
    2.6% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years0 employees
    0.0% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more0 employees
    0.0% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 39 of this agency's 40 payroll records.

Civil service coverage

63% 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 specification25
  • Records with no matching specification15
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster19

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 33rd largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.1% of the state workforce.

These are the agencies closest to it in size, which makes them the fairest comparison for pay and tenure.