Authority Payroll

South Jersey Port Corporation

140 employees · Independent public authority

With 140 employees, South Jersey Port Corporation is one of the more sizable authorities in the state.

The most common title is Guard (17% of staff), followed by Equipment Operator and Part Time Guard. Median pay is $65,672, about 12% below the statewide median. Only about 49% 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 South Jersey Port Corporation

107 people at South Jersey Port Corporation are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund, which is 76% of the 140 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 $64,782, with the middle half between $44,053 and $73,607.

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 South Jersey Port Corporation operates the state's public marine terminals on the Delaware River, handling breakbulk and bulk cargo through facilities in the Camden area and in Salem County. It is an operating port: it moves cargo, maintains cranes and warehouses, and staffs its own security force.

South Jersey Port Corporation recorded 140 employees on New Jersey's independent authority payroll as of December 31, 2025. That is 0.7% of the 19,416 people employed across the 16 authorities in this dataset, and the 7th largest headcount of the group. The payroll breaks down as 126 full time, 14 part time.

The payroll is guards, equipment operators, crane operators, laborers, mechanics, and warehouse clerks, with a small administrative group behind them. Cargo work is scheduled around vessel calls rather than office hours, so a large majority of employees record overtime and the average overtime payment per person is among the highest on this list.

What South Jersey Port Corporation pays

Half of the employees at South Jersey Port Corporation earn more than $65,672 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $43,680 and $72,977, and reported pay runs from $377 to $117,810. That median is 12.4% below the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is a routine part of pay here: 100 employees (71.4% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $1,161,382, an average of $11,614 each among those who received any.

Median salary	$65,672
25th percentile	$43,680
75th percentile	$72,977
Lowest reported	$377
Highest reported	$117,810
Employees with salary data	140

Part time, seasonal and hourly staff make up 10% 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 South Jersey Port Corporation

71 of the 140 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	28	20%
Police, security and fire	10	7.1%
Supervisors and field managers	7	5%
Clerical and records	6	4.3%
Mechanics and technicians	6	4.3%
Program and education staff	4	2.9%
Administrative, program and professional staff	3	2.1%
Appointed and board positions	1	0.7%

These families are our own grouping of the 40 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 66 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at South Jersey Port Corporation.

Largest authority-specific titles

PART TIME GUARD: 10 employees
WAREHOUSE CLERK: 6 employees
MECHANIC AND MAINTENANCE REPAIRMAN (AUTOMOTIVE): 5 employees
OPERATIONS SUPERVISORS: 4 employees
CRANE OPERATOR: 3 employees
TRAINEE CRANE OPERATOR: 2 employees
FACILITY MAINTENANCE FORMAN: 2 employees
CAPTAIN OF SECURITY: 2 employees

Civil service titles and authority titles

69 of the 140 people on this payroll (49.3%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 71 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.

Nearly half of the port's employees hold titles that match civil service specifications, the second highest share on this list. Port work maps onto long established public sector titles such as guard, equipment operator, and laborer, so the naming lines up in a way that transit and toll work never does.

Civil service titles in use here

These are the titles at South Jersey Port Corporation 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.

GUARD: 24 employees
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR: 19 employees
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR: 9 employees
LABORER 1: 8 employees
ELECTRICIAN: 2 employees
ASSISTANT CHIEF ACCOUNTANT: 2 employees
MECHANIC TRAINEE: 1 employee
BUILDING MANAGER: 1 employee
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 1: 1 employee
PURCHASING AGENT: 1 employee
ASSISTANT HOUSING MANAGER: 1 employee

Frequently asked questions

How many people work at South Jersey Port Corporation?

140 employees appear on the South Jersey Port Corporation payroll as of December 31, 2025, which is 0.7% of the 19,416 employees across New Jersey's independent public authorities. 14 of them are part time.

What does South Jersey Port Corporation pay?

The median salary is $65,672, with the middle half of the payroll between $43,680 and $72,977 and reported pay ranging from $377 to $117,810.

Are South Jersey Port Corporation jobs civil service jobs?

49.3% 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 South Jersey Port Corporation?

The largest authority-specific titles are PART TIME GUARD (10 employees), WAREHOUSE CLERK (6 employees), MECHANIC AND MAINTENANCE REPAIRMAN (AUTOMOTIVE) (5 employees), OPERATIONS SUPERVISORS (4 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 40 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 South Jersey Port Corporation titles match civil service specifications?

About this data

New Jersey YourMoney authority payroll, snapshot dated December 31, 2025. South Jersey Port Corporation 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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