New Jersey Economic Development Authority
505 employees ยท Independent public authority
New Jersey Economic Development Authority runs a workforce of 505 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger authorities.
The most common title is Intern (7% of staff), followed by Small Business Officer and Program Analyst. Median pay is $97,907, about 31% above the statewide median. Only about 9% of its employees hold a title that matches a civil service specification. Most positions here use authority-specific, union-negotiated titles instead.
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority is the state's finance and incentive arm for business growth. It underwrites loans and guarantees, administers tax incentive programs, issues bonds, and runs grant programs aimed at small businesses and specific industries. Everything it does is transactional and analytical, and its payroll is composed accordingly.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority recorded 505 employees on New Jersey's independent authority payroll as of December 31, 2025. That is 2.6% of the 19,416 people employed across the 16 authorities in this dataset, and the 3rd largest headcount of the group. The payroll breaks down as 462 full time, 43 paid hourly.
Nearly all of the staff are program officers, analysts, underwriters, procurement officers, and legal and compliance professionals, and almost none of them record overtime. The authority also carries a large intern cohort, which is the single biggest title on its payroll and pulls the bottom of the salary range down. Median pay is among the highest on this list, which is what a workforce made up almost entirely of credentialed professionals looks like.
What New Jersey Economic Development Authority pays
Half of the employees at New Jersey Economic Development Authority earn more than $97,907 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $79,310 and $124,943, and reported pay runs from $32,760 to $200,000. That median is 30.5% above the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is rare on this payroll: 4 employees (0.8% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $7,615, an average of $1,904 each among those who received any.
| Median salary | $97,907 |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $79,310 |
| 75th percentile | $124,943 |
| Lowest reported | $32,760 |
| Highest reported | $200,000 |
| Employees with salary data | 505 |
A small number of part time and hourly records are included, annualized at 1,040 and 2,080 hours a year respectively, so the bottom of the range reflects them rather than a low full time salary. Extreme outliers are trimmed before the percentiles are calculated.
Jobs that exist only at New Jersey Economic Development Authority
460 of the 505 employees here work under titles the authority defines itself. Sorting those titles by the kind of work they cover says more about how the organization is staffed than the match rate does.
| Job family | Employees | Share of workforce |
|---|---|---|
| Other authority titles | 257 | 50.9% |
| Administrative, program and professional staff | 99 | 19.6% |
| Program and education staff | 38 | 7.5% |
| Supervisors and field managers | 15 | 3% |
| Compliance | 3 | 0.6% |
| Authority administration | 2 | 0.4% |
| Appointed and board positions | 2 | 0.4% |
| Police, security and fire | 1 | 0.2% |
These families are our own grouping of the 304 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 418 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
Largest authority-specific titles
- INTERN: 38 employees. Intern position
- SMALL BUSINESS OFFICER: 8 employees
- SENIOR PROGRAM ANALYST: 6 employees
- EXECUTIVE/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT I: 5 employees
- PROGRAM OFFICER FEDERAL PROGRAM COMPLIANCE: 4 employees
- SENIOR PROCUREMENT OFFICER: 4 employees
- SENIOR PROGRAM OFR FEDERAL PRGMS REPORT/COMPL: 3 employees
- PROJECT OFFICER CHILD CARE: 3 employees
Civil service titles and authority titles
45 of the 505 people on this payroll (8.9%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 460 work under titles that exist only inside the authority.
A number that low says less about the work than it looks like it does, because what was compared is title text. A match is title text lining up with a published specification, not Title 11A status; the employer directory answers that question, and data sources explains the crosswalk.
The low match rate here is about naming rather than unusual work. The authority writes its titles around programs, so a small business officer or a program officer for federal program compliance has no matching specification even though the underlying analyst work would be recognizable to a state employee.
Civil service titles in use here
These are the titles at New Jersey Economic Development Authority that match a published specification. Each links to the specification, where you can read the definition, the requirements, and the salary range the state assigns to it.
- PROGRAM ANALYST: 7 employees
- SENIOR PAROLE OFFICER: 5 employees
- PROGRAM SPECIALIST 2: 4 employees
- ETHICS COMPLIANCE OFFICER: 3 employees
Frequently asked questions
How many people work at New Jersey Economic Development Authority?
505 employees appear on the New Jersey Economic Development Authority payroll as of December 31, 2025, which is 2.6% of the 19,416 employees across New Jersey's independent public authorities.
What does New Jersey Economic Development Authority pay?
The median salary is $97,907, with the middle half of the payroll between $79,310 and $124,943 and reported pay ranging from $32,760 to $200,000.
Are New Jersey Economic Development Authority jobs civil service jobs?
8.9% of employees here hold a title that matches a New Jersey civil service specification by name. That compares title text, not Title 11A status: this authority recruits directly rather than through Commission exams and eligible lists.
What are the most common jobs at New Jersey Economic Development Authority?
The largest authority-specific titles are INTERN (38 employees), SMALL BUSINESS OFFICER (8 employees), SENIOR PROGRAM ANALYST (6 employees), EXECUTIVE/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT I (5 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 304 distinct titles here with no civil service counterpart, which is normal for an independent authority: it writes its own classifications rather than drawing on the state classification plan.
Why do so few New Jersey Economic Development Authority titles match civil service specifications?
The low match rate here is about naming rather than unusual work. The authority writes its titles around programs, so a small business officer or a program officer for federal program compliance has no matching specification even though the underlying analyst work would be recognizable to a state employee.
About this data
New Jersey YourMoney authority payroll, snapshot dated December 31, 2025. New Jersey Economic Development Authority is not paid through the centralized state payroll, so these figures are never merged with state agency payroll on this site, and the dataset carries no hire date, so no tenure figures exist. Salary values mix annual and hourly records, and hourly rates are annualized before percentiles are calculated. Full method: data sources and methodology.
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