Authority Payroll

South Jersey Transportation Authority

467 employees · Independent public authority

South Jersey Transportation Authority is a substantial independent public authority, employing 467 people statewide.

The most common title is Part Time Driver Cdl (8% of staff), followed by Maint. Person 4 and Part Time Driver Non Cdl. Median pay is $69,410, about 7% below the statewide median. Only about 14% 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 Transportation Authority

300 people at South Jersey Transportation Authority are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund, which is 64% of the 467 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 $78,071, with the middle half between $58,094 and $91,909.

The median member has 9 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 Transportation Authority operates the Atlantic City Expressway and Atlantic City International Airport, and it runs transportation services across the southern part of the state. For its size it has the widest range of operations on this list: it collects tolls, maintains a highway, runs an airport, and drives buses.

South Jersey Transportation Authority recorded 467 employees on New Jersey's independent authority payroll as of December 31, 2025. That is 2.4% of the 19,416 people employed across the 16 authorities in this dataset, and the 4th largest headcount of the group. The payroll breaks down as 339 full time, 124 part time, 4 seasonal.

The payroll stands out for how much of it is part time. Part time CDL and non CDL drivers, part time communications operators, and part time parking attendants together account for a large share of the headcount, and the authority also employs firefighters, which follows from running an airport. That part time share is why the twenty fifth percentile salary sits so far below the median here.

What South Jersey Transportation Authority pays

Half of the employees at South Jersey Transportation Authority earn more than $69,410 and half earn less. The middle half of the payroll falls between $44,263 and $90,376, and reported pay runs from $5,120 to $155,126. That median is 7.5% below the $75,005 median across the authority payroll as a whole. Overtime is a routine part of pay here: 316 employees (67.7% of the workforce) recorded overtime, totaling $2,178,913, an average of $6,895 each among those who received any.

Median salary	$69,410
25th percentile	$44,263
75th percentile	$90,376
Lowest reported	$5,120
Highest reported	$155,126
Employees with salary data	425

Part time, seasonal and hourly staff make up 27.4% 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 Transportation Authority

400 of the 467 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
Vehicle operators and drivers	99	21.2%
Other authority titles	99	21.2%
Maintenance and facilities	60	12.8%
Administrative, program and professional staff	47	10.1%
Supervisors and field managers	17	3.6%
Signals, communications and dispatch	16	3.4%
Toll plaza patrol technicians	15	3.2%
Police, security and fire	12	2.6%

These families are our own grouping of the 142 distinct authority titles the crosswalk records here, covering 400 of those employees. They are not an official classification, and the shares are given against total headcount at South Jersey Transportation Authority.

Largest authority-specific titles

PART TIME DRIVER CDL: 37 employees. Part-time CDL driver (bus operator)
MAINTENANCE PERSON 4: 27 employees
PART TIME DRIVER NON CDL: 21 employees. Part-time non-CDL transit driver
FULL TIME DRIVER - CDL: 20 employees. Full-time CDL transit driver
P/T COMMUNICATION OPERA: 15 employees. Part-time communications operator
FIREFIGHTER: 12 employees
MAINTENANCE PERSON SKILLED 2: 11 employees
MAINTENANCE PERSON SKILLED 3: 11 employees

Civil service titles and authority titles

67 of the 467 people on this payroll (14.3%) hold a job title whose name matches a New Jersey civil service specification. The other 400 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.

Mechanics, communications operators, and accountants match civil service specifications. The driver, plaza, and maintenance classes do not, because they are negotiated job classes rather than classification titles.

Civil service titles in use here

These are the titles at South Jersey Transportation 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.

MECHANIC: 17 employees
COMMUNICATIONS OPERATOR 1: 13 employees
ACCOUNTANT 1: 5 employees

Frequently asked questions

How many people work at South Jersey Transportation Authority?

467 employees appear on the South Jersey Transportation Authority payroll as of December 31, 2025, which is 2.4% of the 19,416 employees across New Jersey's independent public authorities. 124 of them are part time. 4 are seasonal.

What does South Jersey Transportation Authority pay?

The median salary is $69,410, with the middle half of the payroll between $44,263 and $90,376 and reported pay ranging from $5,120 to $155,126.

Are South Jersey Transportation Authority jobs civil service jobs?

14.3% 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 Transportation Authority?

The largest authority-specific titles are PART TIME DRIVER CDL (37 employees), MAINTENANCE PERSON 4 (27 employees), PART TIME DRIVER NON CDL (21 employees), FULL TIME DRIVER - CDL (20 employees). Our authority title crosswalk records 142 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 South Jersey Transportation Authority titles match civil service specifications?

About this data

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