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Office of Administrative Law

155 employees · NJ state government agency

Office of Administrative Law runs a workforce of 155 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger state agencies.

The most common title is Administrative Law Judge (36% of staff), followed by Law Clerk and Supervising Judicial Support Specialist Oal. Median pay is $127,826, about 51% above the statewide median. About 71% 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 8.6 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 47%).

About Office of Administrative Law

The Office of Administrative Law is the independent forum where contested cases from state agencies are heard. When an agency decision is challenged, the case is usually transmitted here, an administrative law judge hears it, and an initial decision goes back to the agency head.

Administrative law judges are more than a third of the entire payroll, which makes this the most judge-dense agency in state government. Around them sit law clerks, judicial support specialists and legal assistants at graded levels who manage the case flow. Median pay is among the highest anywhere on the state payroll, and the reason is structural rather than generous: a roster made up largely of judges has no entry-level tier beneath it to pull the median down.

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.

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

Titles you will not find elsewhere

A useful way to read an agency is by what only it employs. 4 titles on this roster are held overwhelmingly here, including 4 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 $77,324 and $173,479, a ratio of 2.24 between the two quartiles. State government as a whole sits at 1.80, so pay here is stretched across a wider range than average, usually a sign of several distinct job families sharing one payroll line.

  • Lowest recorded salary$51,480
  • Lower quartile$77,324
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$127,826
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$173,479
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$189,049

Based on 135 salaried records.

Union representation

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

  • CWA73 employees
    47.1% of the agency
  • IBEW4 employees
    2.6% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 50% 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 8.6 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 38% joined within the last five years, and 25% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years58 employees
    38.4% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years29 employees
    19.2% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years15 employees
    9.9% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years11 employees
    7.3% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years21 employees
    13.9% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more17 employees
    11.3% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 151 of this agency's 155 payroll records.

Overtime

10 employees here recorded overtime, 6.5% 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 $13,397 in overtime, averaging $1,340 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 overtime10
  • Share of the agency6.5%
  • Total overtime paid$13,397
  • Average per employee earning it$1,340

Civil service coverage

71% 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 specification110
  • Records with no matching specification45
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster30

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 28th largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.2% of the state workforce.

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