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Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness

162 employees · NJ state government agency

Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness is a substantial state agency, employing 162 people statewide.

The most common title is Administrative Analyst 3 (10% of staff), followed by Intelligence Analyst Apprentice Office Of Homeland Security And Preparedness and Intelligence Analyst 1, Office Of Homeland Security And Preparedness. Median pay is $110,268, about 30% above the statewide median. About 73% 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 4.5 years, shorter than the statewide median of 9.6 years. CWA represents the largest share of its unionized workforce (about 47%).

About Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness

The Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness coordinates New Jersey's counterterrorism and preparedness work, produces threat analysis for state and local partners, and runs the state's cybersecurity cell.

The roster is analytical rather than operational. Intelligence analysts at graded levels, including an apprentice grade that serves as the entry point, sit alongside administrative analysts who handle grants and program coordination. Critical infrastructure coordinators work with the utility and transport sectors. The agency carries a high share of confidential salary codes for its size, which follows from the sensitivity of the work rather than from anything about seniority.

Who works here

These are the titles that carry the most people on this payroll. Each one links to its civil service specification, which sets out the duties, the minimum requirements and the salary range.

17 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 29 in all.

Titles you will not find elsewhere

4 of this agency's titles are concentrated here rather than shared across departments, and for 4 of them every single position in the state sits on this payroll.

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

Below are the quartile boundaries for this agency's salaries, with the statewide equivalents alongside them for reference.

The middle half of this agency's employees earn between $86,027 and $136,605, a ratio of 1.59 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$51,480
  • Lower quartile$86,027
    statewide $62,428
  • Median salary$110,268
    statewide $84,548
  • Upper quartile$136,605
    statewide $112,646
  • Highest recorded salary$210,000

Based on 139 salaried records.

Union representation

Which contract covers a job decides its salary schedule, its step ladder and its grievance route. This is the union mix on this payroll.

  • CWA76 employees
    46.9% of the agency
  • IBEW11 employees
    6.8% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 54% of this agency's payroll records. The remainder are unclassified, exempt or managerial positions that sit outside a bargaining unit.

How long people stay

Tenure tells you something a salary table cannot: whether this is a place people arrive at or a place they stay.

Half of this agency's employees have been on the state payroll longer than 4.5 years, well short of the statewide median of 9.6. 54% joined within the last five years, and 13% have twenty years or more behind them.

  • Under 5 years85 employees
    53.8% of those with a hire date
  • 5 to 10 years23 employees
    14.6% of those with a hire date
  • 10 to 15 years15 employees
    9.5% of those with a hire date
  • 15 to 20 years14 employees
    8.9% of those with a hire date
  • 20 to 25 years13 employees
    8.2% of those with a hire date
  • 25 years or more8 employees
    5.1% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 158 of this agency's 162 payroll records.

Civil service coverage

73% 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 specification119
  • Records with no matching specification43
  • Distinct civil service titles on the roster29

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 27th largest of the 39 payroll lines in New Jersey state government, holding 0.2% of the state workforce.

Its nearest neighbours by headcount, for readers who want a like-for-like comparison.