New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency
290 employees ยท Independent public authority
New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency runs a workforce of 290 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger authorities.
The most common title is Housing Manager (4% of staff), followed by Administrative Assistant 1 and Contract Administrator 3. Median pay is $85,315, about 14% above the statewide median. Only about 28% 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 Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency finances homes. It issues bonds to fund below market mortgages for first time buyers, lends to developers of affordable rental housing, and administers the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in New Jersey. That last role is visible in the payroll, which carries a run of tax credit analysts working on compliance.
New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency recorded 290 employees on New Jersey's independent authority payroll as of December 31, 2025. That is 1.5% of the 19,416 people employed across the 16 authorities in this dataset, and the 5th largest headcount of the group. Every employee on the payroll is recorded as full time.
Every employee is full time. The mix is underwriters, loan purchasing and quality control staff, contract administrators, accountants, and housing managers, with overtime rare enough to be a rounding error.
What New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency pays
Half of the employees at New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency earn more than $85,315 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $74,344 and $103,705, and reported pay runs from $40,739 to $144,900. That median is 13.7% above the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is rare on this payroll: 14 employees (4.8% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $107,811, an average of $7,701 each among those who received any.
| Median salary | $85,315 |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $74,344 |
| 75th percentile | $103,705 |
| Lowest reported | $40,739 |
| Highest reported | $144,900 |
| Employees with salary data | 290 |
All records on this payroll are full time, so the figures above need no adjustment for part time hours. Extreme outliers are trimmed before the percentiles are calculated.
Jobs that exist only at New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency
209 of the 290 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative, program and professional staff | 99 | 34.1% |
| Other authority titles | 73 | 25.2% |
| Supervisors and field managers | 11 | 3.8% |
| Program and education staff | 8 | 2.8% |
| Cleaners and station attendants | 2 | 0.7% |
These families are our own grouping of the 120 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 193 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency.
Largest authority-specific titles
- LOAN PURCHASING SPECIALIST: 7 employees
- QUALITY CONTROL COORDINATOR: 6 employees
- UNDERWRITER II: 6 employees
- TAX CREDIT ANALYST III (COMPLIANCE): 5 employees
- SENIOR CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR: 5 employees
- CASUAL: 5 employees
- SENIOR ACCOUNTANT II: 4 employees
- TAX CREDIT ANALYST II (COMPLIANCE): 4 employees
Civil service titles and authority titles
81 of the 290 people on this payroll (27.9%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 209 work under titles that exist only inside the authority.
That percentage measures title naming and nothing more. 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.
A little over a quarter of the agency's staff hold civil service titles, concentrated in finance, contract administration, and administrative support, all functions that exist in state service under the same names. The lending specific roles, underwriters and tax credit analysts among them, do not.
Civil service titles in use here
These are the titles at New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency 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.
- HOUSING MANAGER: 12 employees
- ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 1: 11 employees
- CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR 3: 8 employees
- ACCOUNTANT: 7 employees
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE: 4 employees
- ARCHITECT: 3 employees
- PROGRAM ASSISTANT CORRECTIONS: 3 employees
- HUMAN RESOURCE COORDINATOR: 3 employees
- SENIOR PROGRAM ANALYST: 3 employees
Frequently asked questions
How many people work at New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency?
290 employees appear on the New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency payroll as of December 31, 2025, which is 1.5% of the 19,416 employees across New Jersey's independent public authorities.
What does New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency pay?
The median salary is $85,315, with the middle half of the payroll between $74,344 and $103,705 and reported pay ranging from $40,739 to $144,900.
Are New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency jobs civil service jobs?
27.9% 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 Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency?
The largest authority-specific titles are LOAN PURCHASING SPECIALIST (7 employees), QUALITY CONTROL COORDINATOR (6 employees), UNDERWRITER II (6 employees), TAX CREDIT ANALYST III (COMPLIANCE) (5 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 120 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 Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency titles match civil service specifications?
A little over a quarter of the agency's staff hold civil service titles, concentrated in finance, contract administration, and administrative support, all functions that exist in state service under the same names. The lending specific roles, underwriters and tax credit analysts among them, do not.
About this data
New Jersey YourMoney authority payroll, snapshot dated December 31, 2025. New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Financing Agency 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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