Authority Payroll

New Jersey Water Supply Authority

117 employees · Independent public authority

New Jersey Water Supply Authority runs a workforce of 117 employees, putting it among New Jersey's larger authorities.

The most common title is Maintenance Worker 1 (6% of staff), followed by Security Officer and Equipment Operator. Median pay is $67,562, about 10% below the statewide median. Only about 44% of its employees hold a title that matches a civil service specification. Most positions here use authority-specific, union-negotiated titles instead.

Pension enrolment at New Jersey Water Supply Authority

114 people at New Jersey Water Supply Authority are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund, which is 97% of the 117 employees on its payroll. Independent authorities are not required to place staff in the State funds, so this is a measure of pension enrolment rather than of the workforce.

Among those members the median pensionable salary is $65,579, with the middle half between $54,395 and $78,825.

The median member has 8.7 years of credited service. The authority payroll data carries no hire date, so this is the only tenure measure available for authority staff, and it covers only the pension-enrolled portion of them.

These figures are pensionable salary reported to the NJ Division of Pensions and Benefits for the four most recent quarters, not total pay and not take-home pay. Snapshot of March 31, 2026. How we compile this.

The New Jersey Water Supply Authority operates the state owned raw water supply systems, including the Raritan Basin system with the Round Valley and Spruce Run reservoirs and the Delaware and Raritan Canal transmission complex, along with the Manasquan Reservoir system. It sells untreated water in bulk to utilities and industrial users, and it does watershed protection work in the basins it manages.

New Jersey Water Supply Authority recorded 117 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 9th largest headcount of the group. Every employee on the payroll is recorded as full time.

This is a field operation. The payroll carries plant and reservoir system operators, maintenance workers, heavy equipment operators, laborers, watershed protection specialists, and its own security force, supported by a small engineering and administrative group. Well over half of employees record overtime, which follows from running a water system that cannot be switched off at five o'clock.

What New Jersey Water Supply Authority pays

Half of the employees at New Jersey Water Supply Authority earn more than $67,562 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $55,989 and $84,150, and reported pay runs from $44,067 to $133,017. That median is 9.9% below the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is a routine part of pay here: 68 employees (58.1% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $295,619, an average of $4,347 each among those who received any.

Median salary	$67,562
25th percentile	$55,989
75th percentile	$84,150
Lowest reported	$44,067
Highest reported	$133,017
Employees with salary data	117

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 Water Supply Authority

66 of the 117 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	26	22.2%
Supervisors and field managers	12	10.3%
Administrative, program and professional staff	12	10.3%
Building trades	7	6%
Clerical and records	1	0.9%
Mechanics and technicians	1	0.9%

These families are our own grouping of the 48 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 59 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at New Jersey Water Supply Authority.

Largest authority-specific titles

PLANT OPERATOR: 3 employees
PLANT OPERATOR WSA: 3 employees
RESERVOIR SYSTEM OPERATOR-WSA: 2 employees
ASSISTANT HVY EQUIP OPERATOR-WSA: 2 employees
FOREMAN LABORER-WSA: 2 employees
SENIOR WATERSHED PROTECTION SPECIALIST- WSA: 2 employees
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST: 2 employees
CHIEF OF SECURITY-WSA: 2 employees

Civil service titles and authority titles

51 of the 117 people on this payroll (43.6%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 66 work under titles that exist only inside the authority.

A high share like that is easy to misread, so it is worth being precise about what was measured: title text, and nothing else. 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 high share of the workforce holds titles matching civil service specifications, including maintenance workers, security officers, equipment operators, and pumping station operators. The authority also uses local variants of those jobs suffixed WSA, and those are its own.

Civil service titles in use here

These are the titles at New Jersey Water Supply 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.

MAINTENANCE WORKER 1: 7 employees
SECURITY OFFICER: 6 employees
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR: 3 employees
PUMPING STATION OPERATOR: 3 employees
PROJECT ENGINEER, RESEARCH: 2 employees
MAINTENANCE WORKER 2: 2 employees
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT: 2 employees
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 1: 2 employees
MECHANIC: 2 employees
PURCHASING AGENT: 2 employees
ASSISTANT CHIEF PUMPING STATION OPERATOR: 2 employees

Frequently asked questions

How many people work at New Jersey Water Supply Authority?

117 employees appear on the New Jersey Water Supply 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 Water Supply Authority pay?

The median salary is $67,562, with the middle half of the payroll between $55,989 and $84,150 and reported pay ranging from $44,067 to $133,017.

Are New Jersey Water Supply Authority jobs civil service jobs?

43.6% 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 Water Supply Authority?

The largest authority-specific titles are PLANT OPERATOR (3 employees), PLANT OPERATOR WSA (3 employees), RESERVOIR SYSTEM OPERATOR-WSA (2 employees), ASSISTANT HVY EQUIP OPERATOR-WSA (2 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 48 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 many New Jersey Water Supply Authority titles match civil service specifications?

About this data

New Jersey YourMoney authority payroll, snapshot dated December 31, 2025. New Jersey Water Supply 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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