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Election Law Enforcement

64 employees · NJ state government agency

Election Law Enforcement is a mid-sized state agency with 64 employees on the state payroll.

The most common title is Assistant Election Finance Analyst (9% of staff), followed by Administrative Analyst 3 and Administrative Analyst 2. Median pay is $94,062, about 11% above the statewide median. About 81% 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 20.7 years, longer than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 78%).

About Election Law Enforcement

The Election Law Enforcement Commission administers New Jersey's campaign finance and lobbying disclosure laws. It collects and publishes the reports that candidates, committees and lobbyists must file, and enforces the rules when they are not followed.

This is one of the smallest agencies on the state payroll and also one of the most experienced: median tenure here is more than double the statewide figure, which for a compliance body is a real asset, since the value of the work is in knowing the filing history. Election finance analysts and report examiners handle the disclosure review, supported by administrative analysts and by the software staff who keep the public filing system running.

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.

20 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 32 in all. Senior Executive Service 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 $67,500 and $113,264, a ratio of 1.68 between the two quartiles. State government as a whole sits at 1.81, 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$44,644
  • Lower quartile$67,500
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$94,062
    statewide $84,796
  • Upper quartile$113,264
    statewide $113,264
  • Highest recorded salary$178,250

Based on 60 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.

  • CWA50 employees
    78.1% of the agency
  • IBEW1 employee
    1.6% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 80% 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 20.7 years, against a statewide median of 9.6. 21% joined within the last five years, and 54% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years13 employees
    21.3% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years9 employees
    14.8% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years3 employees
    4.9% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years3 employees
    4.9% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years18 employees
    29.5% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more15 employees
    24.6% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 61 of this agency's 64 payroll records.

Civil service coverage

81% 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 specification52
  • Records with no matching specification12
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster32

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.