Military Affairs

Military Affairs runs a workforce of 476 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger state agencies.

The most common title is Repairer (6% of staff), followed by Air Guard Firefighter and Armorer 2. Median pay is $71,403, about 16% below the statewide median. About 55% 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 5.2 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 35%).

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.

• Repairer28 employees
  5.9% of staff · median $46,915 · IFPTE
• Air Guard Firefighter16 employees
  3.4% of staff · median $74,903 · CWA
• Armorer 211 employees
  2.3% of staff · median $71,639 · CWA
• Principal Staff Officer 211 employees
  2.3% of staff · median $117,796 · CWA
• Youth Worker11 employees
  2.3% of staff · median $48,430 · AFSCME
• Special Staff Officer 310 employees
  2.1% of staff · median $85,742 · CWA
• Senior Repairer10 employees
  2.1% of staff · median $56,649 · IFPTE
• Special Staff Officer 27 employees
  1.5% of staff · median $86,980 · CWA
• Air Guard Fire Captain6 employees
  1.3% of staff · median $94,575 · CWA
• Youth Work Supervisor6 employees
  1.3% of staff · median $64,281 · CWA
• Technician Environmental Systems6 employees
  1.3% of staff · median $70,957 · IFPTE
• Information Technology Specialist5 employees
  1.1% of staff · median $79,201 · CWA

78 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 90 in all.

Titles you will not find elsewhere

A useful way to read an agency is by what only it employs. 10 titles on this roster are held overwhelmingly here, including 9 that exist nowhere else in state government.

• Air Guard Firefighterall 16 statewide
  only at this agency
• Armorer 2all 11 statewide
  only at this agency
• Special Staff Officer 310 of 11 statewide
  91% of the statewide total
• Special Staff Officer 2all 7 statewide
  only at this agency
• Air Guard Fire Captainall 6 statewide
  only at this agency
• Technician Environmental Systemsall 6 statewide
  only at this agency
• Air Guard Battalion Chiefall 4 statewide
  only at this agency
• Budget Analyst 3all 4 statewide
  only at this agency

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 $58,462 and $85,742, a ratio of 1.47 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$40,582
• Lower quartile$58,462
  statewide $62,428
• Median salary$71,403
  statewide $84,796
• Upper quartile$85,742
  statewide $113,264
• Highest recorded salary$137,037

Based on 273 salaried records, with 12 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.

• CWA165 employees
  34.7% of the agency
• IFPTE67 employees
  14.1% of the agency
• IBEW15 employees
  3.2% of the agency
• AFSCME15 employees
  3.2% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 55% 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 5.2 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 48% joined within the last five years, and 15% have twenty years or more behind them.

• Under 5 years145 employees
  47.5% of those with a hire date
• 5 to 10 years70 employees
  23.0% of those with a hire date
• 10 to 15 years23 employees
  7.5% of those with a hire date
• 15 to 20 years21 employees
  6.9% of those with a hire date
• 20 to 25 years17 employees
  5.6% of those with a hire date
• 25 years or more29 employees
  9.5% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 305 of this agency's 476 payroll records.

Overtime

132 employees here recorded overtime, 27.7% of the agency, close to the 31.6% recorded across state government.

Together they were paid $830,565 in overtime, averaging $6,292 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 overtime132
• Share of the agency27.7%
• Total overtime paid$830,565
• Average per employee earning it$6,292

Civil service coverage

Only 55% 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 specification261
• Records with no matching specification215
• Distinct civil service titles on the roster90

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 21st largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.6% of the state workforce.

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

• Office of Information Technology577 employees
  median $111,094
• Department of Banking & Insurance481 employees
  median $80,756
• Department of Agriculture307 employees
  median $88,117
• Civil Service Commission281 employees
  median $97,100