Office of the State Comptroller

Office of the State Comptroller runs a workforce of 126 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger state agencies.

The most common title is Regulatory Officer 2 (13% of staff), followed by Medical Review Analyst and Administrative Analyst 3. Median pay is $118,678, about 40% above the statewide median.

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 75%).

About Office of the State Comptroller

The Office of the State Comptroller audits state and local government spending, reviews public contracts, and investigates waste, fraud and abuse. Its Medicaid Fraud Division recovers improper payments from the health care program.

This is a small, senior office. Regulatory officers, medical review analysts and auditors do the substantive review work, with administrative analysts at graded levels supporting it. Nearly every record here maps to a civil service specification, which is unusual for an office of this size and reflects how standardized audit and analyst titles are. Median pay is high and overtime is absent, the profile of a professional office with no field or shift operation.

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.

• Regulatory Officer 217 employees
  13.5% of staff · median $123,437 · CWA
• Medical Review Analyst16 employees
  12.7% of staff · median $118,678 · CWA
• Administrative Analyst 314 employees
  11.1% of staff · median $111,094 · CWA
• Government Representative 29 employees
  7.1% of staff · median $132,250
• Auditor 18 employees
  6.3% of staff · median $92,265 · CWA
• Administrative Analyst 47 employees
  5.6% of staff · median $127,826 · CWA
• Government Representative 16 employees
  4.8% of staff · median $143,750
• Legal Specialist5 employees
  4.0% of staff · median $165,428
• Supervising Medical Review Analyst5 employees
  4.0% of staff · median $127,826 · CWA
• Administrative Analyst 24 employees
  3.2% of staff · median $77,715 · CWA
• Supervising Auditor4 employees
  3.2% of staff · median $121,977 · CWA
• Assistant Division Director4 employees
  3.2% of staff · median $159,275

13 further titles appear on this agency's payroll, 25 in all. Government Representative 2, Government Representative 1, Assistant Division Director are catch-all titles used for very different jobs across agencies, so the median pay shown against them covers a wide mix of roles and does not describe a single position.

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 $103,509 and $132,216, a ratio of 1.28 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$64,203
• Lower quartile$103,509
  statewide $62,428
• Median salary$118,678
  statewide $84,548
• Upper quartile$132,216
  statewide $112,646
• Highest recorded salary$172,500

Based on 126 salaried records, with 5 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.

• CWA94 employees
  74.6% of the agency
• IBEW1 employee
  0.8% of the agency

Union coverage is identifiable for 75% 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. 31% joined within the last five years, and 10% have twenty years or more behind them.

• Under 5 years38 employees
  31.4% of those with a hire date
• 5 to 10 years35 employees
  28.9% of those with a hire date
• 10 to 15 years32 employees
  26.4% of those with a hire date
• 15 to 20 years4 employees
  3.3% of those with a hire date
• 20 to 25 years6 employees
  5.0% of those with a hire date
• 25 years or more6 employees
  5.0% of those with a hire date

Hire dates are present for 121 of this agency's 126 payroll records.

Civil service coverage

95% of this agency's payroll records carry a title that matches a published civil service specification. That is a high match rate, and it means the hiring routes described elsewhere on this site apply to most jobs here: an announced examination, an eligible list, and appointment from that list.

• Records matched to a specification120
• Records with no matching specification6
• Distinct civil service titles on the roster25

Where it sits among state agencies

By headcount this is the 29th 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.

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  median $110,268
• Office of Administrative Law155 employees
  median $127,826
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  median $79,253
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  median $94,327