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Juvenile Justice Commission

1,096 employees · NJ state government agency

Juvenile Justice Commission anchors a workforce of 1,096 employees, one of the biggest payrolls in state government.

The most common title is Senior Correctional Police Officer, Youth Justice Commission (17% of staff), followed by Youth Worker and Senior Youth Worker. Median pay is $83,817, roughly in line with the statewide median.

Median tenure is 10.0 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 41%).

About Juvenile Justice Commission

The Juvenile Justice Commission operates New Jersey's secure youth facilities and residential community programs, and supervises young people released from them. It sits in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.

The roster mixes three workforces that rarely share a payroll line. Custody staff carry correctional police titles specific to the youth system and are PBA-represented. Youth workers and youth work supervisors do the direct residential and program work and are AFSCME-represented. Teachers on twelve-month contracts and trade instructors deliver the education that residents are entitled to while in custody. Community program specialists handle the reentry side. Almost every position here maps to a civil service specification, an unusually clean match rate.

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.

At least 100 distinct titles appear on this agency's payroll. The 12 largest are listed above.

Titles you will not find elsewhere

A useful way to read an agency is by what only it employs. 18 titles on this roster are held overwhelmingly here, including 14 that exist nowhere else in state government.

Concentration is measured against the same payroll file, comparing this agency's headcount in a title with the statewide headcount in that title.

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 $63,327 and $109,024, a ratio of 1.72 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$37,611
  • Lower quartile$63,327
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$83,817
    statewide $84,796
  • Upper quartile$109,024
    statewide $113,264
  • Highest recorded salary$171,851

Based on 1,082 salaried records, with 5 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.

  • CWA445 employees
    40.6% of the agency
  • AFSCME234 employees
    21.4% of the agency
  • PBA218 employees
    19.9% of the agency
  • IFPTE51 employees
    4.7% of the agency
  • IBEW30 employees
    2.7% of the agency
  • FOP12 employees
    1.1% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 90% 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 10.0 years, essentially the statewide figure of 9.6. 35% joined within the last five years, and 32% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years370 employees
    35.2% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years153 employees
    14.5% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years129 employees
    12.3% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years61 employees
    5.8% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years177 employees
    16.8% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more162 employees
    15.4% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 1,052 of this agency's 1,096 payroll records.

Overtime

586 employees here recorded overtime, 53.5% of the agency, against 31.6% across state government. Agencies that have to cover a post around the clock always sit above that line.

Together they were paid $11,095,039 in overtime, averaging $18,934 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 overtime586
  • Share of the agency53.5%
  • Total overtime paid$11,095,039
  • Average per employee earning it$18,934

Civil service coverage

96% of this agency's payroll records carry a title that matches a published civil service specification. That is a high match rate, and it means the hiring routes described elsewhere on this site apply to most jobs here: an announced examination, an eligible list, and appointment from that list.

  • Records matched to a specification1,056
  • Records with no matching specification40
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster100 or more

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 16th largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 1.5% of the state workforce.

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