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Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

8 employees · NJ state government agency

With only 8 employees, Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse is a small state agency, small enough that its payroll roster reads more like a staff list than a workforce.

Its roster includes Deputy Executive Director, Principal Clerk Typist, Administrative Analyst 2, Government Representative 2, and Administrative Assistant 2. Median pay is $91,090, about 8% 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 10.9 years, longer than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 75%).

About Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

The Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse coordinates state planning on substance use and administers the municipal alliance grant program, which funds local prevention work through county and municipal committees.

This is one of the smallest payroll lines in state government, and its staff are effectively a grants administration team: a deputy executive director, an administrative analyst, an administrative assistant and clerical support. The council's reach is much wider than its headcount, because the work is distributing and monitoring grants to local alliances rather than delivering services directly.

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.

Government Representative 2 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

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 $86,631 and $117,066, a ratio of 1.35 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$62,340
  • Lower quartile$86,631
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$91,090
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$117,066
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$145,806

Based on 8 salaried records.

Union representation

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

  • CWA6 employees
    75.0% of the agency
  • IBEW1 employee
    12.5% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 88% 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 10.9 years, against a statewide median of 9.6. 0% joined within the last five years, and 25% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years0 employees
    0.0% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years2 employees
    25.0% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years3 employees
    37.5% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years1 employee
    12.5% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years1 employee
    12.5% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more1 employee
    12.5% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 8 of this agency's 8 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 specification5
  • Records with no matching specification3
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster5

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 38th largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, under a twentieth of one percent of the state workforce.

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