New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority
113 employees ยท Independent public authority
With 113 employees, New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority is one of the more sizable authorities in the state.
The most common title is Senior Planner (4% of staff), followed by Facilities Attendant and Chief Of Office Services. Median pay is $80,000, about 7% above the statewide median. Only about 35% 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 Sports and Exposition Authority owns and manages the Meadowlands Sports Complex and the Meadowlands Racetrack, and in 2015 it absorbed the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, taking on land use planning and zoning across the Meadowlands district. That merger is visible in the payroll, which carries planners and zoning officers next to facilities and event staff.
New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority recorded 113 employees on New Jersey's independent authority payroll as of December 31, 2025. That is 0.6% of the 19,416 people employed across the 16 authorities in this dataset, and the 10th largest headcount of the group. The payroll breaks down as 98 full time, 15 paid hourly.
It is a small workforce for the amount of property and territory it covers. Engineers, planners, and administrators sit alongside facilities attendants and park staff, and part of the payroll is hourly rather than salaried, which fits work that follows an events calendar.
What New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority pays
Half of the employees at New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority earn more than $80,000 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $57,353 and $106,844, and reported pay runs from $7,500 to $180,000. That median is 6.7% above the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is rare on this payroll: 6 employees (5.3% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $29,430, an average of $4,905 each among those who received any.
| Median salary | $80,000 |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $57,353 |
| 75th percentile | $106,844 |
| Lowest reported | $7,500 |
| Highest reported | $180,000 |
| Employees with salary data | 113 |
Part time, seasonal and hourly staff make up 13.3% of this payroll and are counted in every figure above, which is why the median sits below what a full time career employee here would recognize as their salary. Hourly rates are annualized before the percentiles are calculated, at 2,080 hours a year for full time records and 1,040 for part time.
Jobs that exist only at New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority
73 of the 113 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 | 41 | 36.3% |
| Administrative, program and professional staff | 21 | 18.6% |
| Supervisors and field managers | 4 | 3.5% |
| Program and education staff | 3 | 2.7% |
These families are our own grouping of the 59 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 69 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority.
Largest authority-specific titles
- FACILITIES ATTENDANT: 4 employees
- PARK ATTENDANT (PT): 3 employees
- SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER: 3 employees
- GIS SPECIALIST: 2 employees
- FACILITIES/MAINTENANCE: 2 employees
- SENIOR ZONING OFFICER: 2 employees
- FACILLITIES MANAGER: 1 employee
- VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE & HR: 1 employee
Civil service titles and authority titles
40 of the 113 people on this payroll (35.4%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 73 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.
About a third of the workforce holds titles that match civil service specifications, including senior planners, engineers, and accountants, which is what you would expect from the planning functions it inherited. The facility and event roles are the authority's own.
Civil service titles in use here
These are the titles at New Jersey Sports & Exposition 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.
- SENIOR PLANNER: 5 employees
- CHIEF OF OFFICE SERVICES: 3 employees
- SENIOR ENGINEER: 3 employees
- ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 1: 2 employees
- SENIOR TRANSPORTATION INSPECTOR: 2 employees
- PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT: 2 employees
- ASSISTANT CHIEF CLERK: 2 employees
- LANDSCAPE DESIGNER 1: 1 employee
- PRINCIPAL ENGINEER CIVIL: 1 employee
- PRINCIPAL PLANNER: 1 employee
- SUPERVISING PLANNER: 1 employee
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST 1: 1 employee
Frequently asked questions
How many people work at New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority?
113 employees appear on the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority payroll as of December 31, 2025, which is 0.6% of the 19,416 employees across New Jersey's independent public authorities.
What does New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority pay?
The median salary is $80,000, with the middle half of the payroll between $57,353 and $106,844 and reported pay ranging from $7,500 to $180,000.
Are New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority jobs civil service jobs?
35.4% 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 Sports & Exposition Authority?
The largest authority-specific titles are FACILITIES ATTENDANT (4 employees), PARK ATTENDANT (PT) (3 employees), SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER (3 employees), GIS SPECIALIST (2 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 59 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 Sports & Exposition Authority titles match civil service specifications?
About a third of the workforce holds titles that match civil service specifications, including senior planners, engineers, and accountants, which is what you would expect from the planning functions it inherited. The facility and event roles are the authority's own.
About this data
New Jersey YourMoney authority payroll, snapshot dated December 31, 2025. New Jersey Sports & Exposition 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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