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Elder Advocacy / Ombudsperson

63 employees · NJ state government agency

Elder Advocacy / Ombudsperson is a mid-sized state agency with 63 employees on the state payroll.

The most common title is Supervising Administrative Analyst (3% of staff), followed by Technical Assistant 1 and Senior Clerk Typist. Median pay is $94,327, about 12% above the statewide median. About 14% 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 3.6 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 75%).

About Elder Advocacy / Ombudsperson

This is the state's long-term care ombudsman function. Its staff investigate complaints on behalf of older residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, and advocate for them independently of the facilities and of the agencies that license them.

The office is tiny, and most of its payroll records do not map to a standard civil service title, which is common for advocacy offices built around a statutory role rather than a large classified staff. The titles that do appear are administrative and analytic. Independence is the point of the office, so its staffing is deliberately separate from the departments whose licensees it investigates.

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.

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 $90,890 and $101,200, a ratio of 1.11 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$66,142
  • Lower quartile$90,890
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$94,327
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$101,200
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$127,826

Based on 52 salaried records, with 7 statistical outliers excluded from the quartile calculation.

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.

  • CWA47 employees
    74.6% of the agency
  • IBEW2 employees
    3.2% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 78% 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 3.6 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 68% joined within the last five years, and 10% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years40 employees
    67.8% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years5 employees
    8.5% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years6 employees
    10.2% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years2 employees
    3.4% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years4 employees
    6.8% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more2 employees
    3.4% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 59 of this agency's 63 payroll records.

Overtime

1 employees here recorded overtime, 1.6% of the agency, against 29.6% across state government. Little overtime usually means salaried professional work with no shift to fill.

Together they were paid $3,378 in overtime, averaging $3,378 for each employee who earned any. Overtime is not part of the salary figures elsewhere on this page, which report base pay.

  • Employees with recorded overtime1
  • Share of the agency1.6%
  • Total overtime paid$3,378
  • Average per employee earning it$3,378

Civil service coverage

Only 14% of this agency's payroll records match a published civil service specification. Most positions here are filled outside the competitive examination process, so the exam and eligible list route described elsewhere on this site does not apply to the majority of these jobs.

  • Records matched to a specification9
  • Records with no matching specification54
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster7

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 31st largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.1% of the state workforce.

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