NJ FY 2027 Compensation Compendium

What Is the Compensation Compendium?

The NJ Compensation Compendium is an annual publication by the NJ Civil Service Commission that defines salary schedules, salary ranges, and pay step increments for all classified state employees. The FY 2027 compendium covers the period July 11, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

Employee Relations Groups (ERGs)

Salary schedules are organized by Employee Relations Group (ERG), which corresponds to the bargaining unit or union for each position. The main ERG schedule types include:

• A-P-R-S — Administrative, Professional, Supervisory, and general state employees (CWA-represented)
• M — Managerial employees, not represented; M-Represented is the negotiated counterpart (IBEW)
• L & FA — Law enforcement and state police units (PBA-represented)
• 1 & 2 — Superior officers and primary supervisory correctional staff

Explore salary data and ERG schedules or search job specifications for specific pay ranges.

How these schedules have moved since 1985

The Commission's schedule lookup publishes 43 fiscal years, FY1985 to FY2027, not just the current one. Across 36 schedules that is 863 separate dates on which New Jersey set new rates for somebody.

The schedule most state employees are paid on, A-P-R-S, has moved 43 times. Step 1 of range 9 went from $10,888 to $39,358 — 3.61× on paper, 1.17× after inflation.

8 of the 36 have not been updated in at least two years. The oldest, E, was last set in 1999; those rates now buy about 52 cents on the dollar of what they bought then.

Schedules covering comparable work

Some kinds of work are covered by two schedules, one negotiated and one not. These are the figures for each, taken from the same archive. VH first appears on July 12, 2014 at $81,212, the rate VI had been paying until that day. YH first appears on July 12, 2014 at $70,642, the rate YI had been paying until that day.

Step 1 of each schedule's most consistently published range, which is not the same range in every schedule. Follow a schedule code for its full table.

Schedules and effective dates come from the Civil Service Commission's own salary schedule lookup, captured for every fiscal year it publishes. Real figures are in 2025 dollars using CUUR0000SA0, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; schedules effective after 2025 are compared at the 2025 index, the newest published annual average. How this data is built.

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