New Jersey Turnpike Authority
2,801 employees ยท Independent public authority
New Jersey Turnpike Authority is one of New Jersey's largest authorities, employing 2,801 people.
The most common title is Pttc Tpk-16 (10% of staff), followed by Maintenance Person and Maint Person 1. Median pay is $78,662, about 5% above the statewide median. Only about 11% 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 Turnpike Authority operates the two toll roads that carry most long distance traffic in the state: the New Jersey Turnpike and, since the 2003 merger with the New Jersey Highway Authority, the Garden State Parkway. It is funded by tolls rather than by appropriations, and it maintains its own roadway, bridges, service areas, and toll plazas.
New Jersey Turnpike Authority recorded 2,801 employees on New Jersey's independent authority payroll as of December 31, 2025. That is 14.4% of the 19,416 people employed across the 16 authorities in this dataset, and the 2nd largest headcount of the group. The payroll breaks down as 2,214 full time, 415 part time, 52 seasonal.
Two groups dominate the payroll. One is roadway and facility maintenance, recorded under maintenance person titles at several grades. The other is toll operations: toll collectors, toll plaza supervisors, and plaza patrol technicians, most of them carrying a suffix naming the contract schedule the employee was hired under. Those dated title variants are a direct record of successive collective bargaining agreements, and they are the reason one job can appear three times in the title list. Part time and seasonal staffing is a real part of the picture too, which pulls the bottom quarter of the salary distribution well below the median.
What New Jersey Turnpike Authority pays
Half of the employees at New Jersey Turnpike Authority earn more than $78,662 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $43,975 and $99,303, and reported pay runs from $16,640 to $178,787. That median is 4.9% above the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is a routine part of pay here: 2,358 employees (84.2% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $19,156,433, an average of $8,124 each among those who received any.
| Median salary | $78,662 |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $43,975 |
| 75th percentile | $99,303 |
| Lowest reported | $16,640 |
| Highest reported | $178,787 |
| Employees with salary data | 2,801 |
Part time, seasonal and hourly staff make up 16.7% 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 Turnpike Authority
2,499 of the 2,801 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance and facilities | 566 | 20.2% |
| Toll collection | 528 | 18.9% |
| Toll plaza patrol technicians | 521 | 18.6% |
| Other authority titles | 202 | 7.2% |
| Administrative, program and professional staff | 180 | 6.4% |
| Supervisors and field managers | 132 | 4.7% |
| Mechanics and technicians | 130 | 4.6% |
| Roadway, track and right of way | 78 | 2.8% |
These families are our own grouping of the 358 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 2,462 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Largest authority-specific titles
- PTTC TPK-16: 283 employees. Patrol Technician Toll Plaza, Turnpike grade 16
- MAINTENANCE PERSON: 249 employees
- MAINTENANCE PERSON 1: 202 employees
- TOLL COLLECTOR TPK AFT 7/2011: 186 employees
- TOLL COLLECTOR PKY AFT 7/2011: 148 employees
- PTTC GSP- 20: 131 employees. Patrol Technician Toll Plaza, Garden State Parkway grade 20
- PTTC TPK - 20: 107 employees. Patrol Technician Toll Plaza, Turnpike grade 20
- TOLL PLZ SUP TPK AFTER 11/2014: 83 employees. Toll Plaza Supervisor (NJ Turnpike, post 2014 schedule)
Civil service titles and authority titles
302 of the 2,801 people on this payroll (10.8%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 2,499 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.
Roughly one in ten Turnpike employees holds a title that matches a civil service specification, and those that do are mostly skilled trades: automotive mechanics, mechanics, and heavy equipment operators. Toll collection has no civil service counterpart at all, because it is work that exists at toll authorities and nowhere in state service.
Civil service titles in use here
These are the titles at New Jersey Turnpike 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.
- AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC: 48 employees
- MECHANIC: 38 employees
- HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR: 25 employees
Frequently asked questions
How many people work at New Jersey Turnpike Authority?
2,801 employees appear on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority payroll as of December 31, 2025, which is 14.4% of the 19,416 employees across New Jersey's independent public authorities. 415 of them are part time. 52 are seasonal.
What does New Jersey Turnpike Authority pay?
The median salary is $78,662, with the middle half of the payroll between $43,975 and $99,303 and reported pay ranging from $16,640 to $178,787.
Are New Jersey Turnpike Authority jobs civil service jobs?
10.8% 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 Turnpike Authority?
The largest authority-specific titles are PTTC TPK-16 (283 employees), MAINTENANCE PERSON (249 employees), MAINTENANCE PERSON 1 (202 employees), TOLL COLLECTOR TPK AFT 7/2011 (186 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 358 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 Turnpike Authority titles match civil service specifications?
Roughly one in ten Turnpike employees holds a title that matches a civil service specification, and those that do are mostly skilled trades: automotive mechanics, mechanics, and heavy equipment operators. Toll collection has no civil service counterpart at all, because it is work that exists at toll authorities and nowhere in state service.
About this data
New Jersey YourMoney authority payroll, snapshot dated December 31, 2025. New Jersey Turnpike 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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