NJ State Employee Salary Schedules — FY 2027

Source: NJ Civil Service Commission, FY 2027 Compensation Compendium. Effective July 11, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

This page provides structured salary data for all New Jersey state employee bargaining units (Employee Relations Groups, or ERGs). Salary codes consist of an ERG prefix letter(s) followed by a range number (e.g., P22 = Professional ERG, Range 22).

Employee Relations Groups (ERGs) — FY 2027

How Salary Codes Work

Every NJ state civil service position has a salary range code in the format: [ERG prefix][range number].

Key Salary Facts — FY 2027

• Administrative/Professional/Primary Level/Higher Level Supervisors (A-P-R-S, Ranges 9–41): $39,358 at the lowest range Step 1, up to $249,836 at the highest range top step
• Managerial (M, Ranges 24–44): $48,646 at the lowest range Step 1, up to $180,723 at the highest range top step — schedule frozen at its 2007 rates
• Crafts/Inspection and Security/Operations, Maintenance and Services (C-I-O, Ranges 9–26): $38,641 at the lowest range Step 1, up to $120,579 at the highest range top step
• Managerial, Represented (M-Represented, Ranges 24–44): $76,287 at the lowest range Step 1, up to $278,960 at the highest range top step
• Exempt (X, Ranges 20–43): $38,112 at the lowest range Step 1, up to $163,912 at the highest range top step — schedule frozen at its 2006 rates
• Health Care and Rehabilitation Services Unit (H, Ranges 9–19): $38,928 at the lowest range Step 1, up to $87,764 at the highest range top step
• Annual step increases: Awarded annually on the anniversary date based on satisfactory performance; movement to Step 9 requires 39 pay periods at Step 8, and Steps 10 and 11 each require 52 pay periods (N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.5)
• Veterans' preference: 5 additional points on exam score (10 for disabled veterans) — affects eligibility list rank, not salary

Rate history since FY1985

The Commission publishes every salary schedule back to fiscal year 1985, not only the current one. This table gives, for each schedule, how many times its rates changed, the range it published most consistently, and what step 1 of that range paid at the start and end of the record. Nominal figures are the dollars published in each year; real figures remove inflation.

• The Commission publishes 43 fiscal years of salary schedules, FY1985 through FY2027, not only the current one.
• Across 36 schedules there are 863 distinct dates on which new rates took effect.
• 8 schedules have not been updated in at least two years: E (last set 1999, now worth about 52% of its value then), X (last set 2006, now worth about 63% of its value then), M (last set 2007, now worth about 64% of its value then), MD (last set 2007, now worth about 64% of its value then), MB (last set 2007, now worth about 64% of its value then), YH (last set 2019, now worth about 79% of its value then), YE (last set 2022, now worth about 91% of its value then), VH (last set 2023, now worth about 95% of its value then).
• Real figures are expressed in 2025 dollars using CUUR0000SA0 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Nominal figures are the dollars the Commission published in each year.

Reading "value retained": the share of its purchasing power a schedule's current rates hold against the year those rates were set. A schedule updated this year sits at 100%. A schedule last set in 2007 sits near 64%, because prices rose while the published rates did not.

Salary Schedule Lookup

For exact salary data by ERG and range number, use the interactive lookup tool at njcsnavigator.com/compensation-compendium.

The raw salary schedule data is also accessible at /data/job_specs_index.json — each spec record includes salary_range, salary_meta.min_salary, and salary_meta.max_salary fields.

Local Government Salary Schedules

The NJ Compensation Compendium covers state employees only. Counties, municipalities, school districts, and authorities negotiate their own salary schedules independently. Local government salaries for similar titles can be higher or lower than state salaries — there is no uniform local schedule.

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