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Office of Legislative Services

1,118 employees · NJ state government agency

Office of Legislative Services is one of New Jersey's largest state agencies, employing 1,118 people.

The most common title is Public Information Officer (1% of staff), followed by Network Technician Trainee Dmu Ols and Public Information Specialist 2 Ols. Median pay is $100,886, about 19% above the statewide median. About 5% 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 6.6 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years.

About Office of Legislative Services

This payroll line covers the legislative branch: the staff of the Senate and General Assembly, the Office of Legislative Services that drafts bills and produces fiscal analysis, and the State Commission of Investigation.

Almost none of these positions are classified civil service titles, and the payroll shows it: the overwhelming majority of records here do not map to a job specification at all. Legislative staff are appointed rather than hired from an eligible list, and their titles are set by the Legislature rather than by the Civil Service Commission. The handful of records that do map are mostly State Commission of Investigation titles, which follow the classified pattern. Read this page as a headcount and pay picture, not as a hiring guide: the routes described elsewhere on this site do not apply to most of these jobs.

Who works here

The agency's roster, largest title first. Every entry links to the published specification, where the requirements and the pay range are set out in full.

18 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 30 in all.

Titles you will not find elsewhere

Some titles barely exist outside this agency. Of the jobs on its roster, 5 are held almost entirely here, and 5 of those have no post anywhere 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

The quartiles say more than a single median does. Here is where this agency's pay sits at each point, next to the statewide figure.

The middle half of this agency's employees earn between $73,421 and $123,059, a ratio of 1.68 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$35,000
  • Lower quartile$73,421
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$100,886
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$123,059
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$196,650

Based on 526 salaried records, with 7 statistical outliers excluded from the quartile calculation.

How long people stay

How long people stay is one of the more honest signals an agency gives off. Long tenure can mean a stable career ladder, or a shortage of new hiring.

Half of this agency's employees have been on the state payroll longer than 6.6 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 44% joined within the last five years, and 17% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years231 employees
    43.8% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years109 employees
    20.7% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years57 employees
    10.8% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years39 employees
    7.4% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years47 employees
    8.9% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more44 employees
    8.3% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 527 of this agency's 1,118 payroll records.

Overtime

71 employees here recorded overtime, 6.4% 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 $122,953 in overtime, averaging $1,732 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 overtime71
  • Share of the agency6.4%
  • Total overtime paid$122,953
  • Average per employee earning it$1,732

Civil service coverage

Only 5% 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 specification56
  • Records with no matching specification1,062
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster30

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 15th largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 1.5% of the state workforce.

The agencies immediately either side of it by headcount are worth comparing against, since size shapes both the title mix and the pay profile.