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Military Affairs

314 employees · NJ state government agency

Military Affairs runs a workforce of 314 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger state agencies.

The most common title is Repairer (9% of staff), followed by Youth Worker and Air Guard Firefighter. Median pay is $71,960, about 15% below the statewide median. About 80% 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 6.5 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 51%).

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.

76 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 88 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.

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 $57,231 and $87,620, a ratio of 1.53 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$40,582
  • Lower quartile$57,231
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$71,960
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$87,620
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$137,037

Based on 258 salaried records, with 10 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.

  • CWA159 employees
    50.6% of the agency
  • IFPTE63 employees
    20.1% of the agency
  • IBEW15 employees
    4.8% of the agency
  • AFSCME14 employees
    4.5% 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

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 6.5 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 43% joined within the last five years, and 17% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years116 employees
    42.8% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years63 employees
    23.2% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years25 employees
    9.2% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years20 employees
    7.4% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years17 employees
    6.3% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more30 employees
    11.1% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 271 of this agency's 314 payroll records.

Overtime

125 employees here recorded overtime, 39.8% of the agency, against 29.6% across state government. Agencies that have to cover a post around the clock always sit above that line.

Together they were paid $605,438 in overtime, averaging $4,844 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 overtime125
  • Share of the agency39.8%
  • Total overtime paid$605,438
  • Average per employee earning it$4,844

Civil service coverage

80% 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 specification250
  • Records with no matching specification64
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster88

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 21st largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.4% of the state workforce.

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