Editorial standards

Who is behind this site

NJ Civil Service Navigator is built and run by Gavin Rozzi, a New Jersey data journalist and open-government researcher. He is the founder and reviewing editor. Articles are bylined to the NJ Civil Service Navigator Editorial Team; every article names its human reviewer, and that reviewer is accountable for what it says. The site is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or funded by the State of New Jersey or the Civil Service Commission.

The three kinds of content here

Official specification text is the verbatim job specification published by the NJ Civil Service Commission. We republish it unchanged, clearly labeled, with a link to the official source and the revision date. We never edit this text.

Derived analysis covers the career ladders, salary figures, plain-language summaries, and workforce statistics on title pages. These are generated by our data pipeline from structured public data (specifications, payroll records, the Compensation Compendium) and reviewed in aggregate, not page by page. Pages built this way say so.

Editorial articles are the pieces under Articles & Analysis. These are written by us, carry a real publication date, and go through human review before publishing. When an article contains computed figures, its methodology section says exactly where the numbers come from.

How articles are produced

Articles start from questions the underlying data can actually answer: what titles really pay, which specifications changed, where the workforce is growing or shrinking. The numbers are computed directly from the source datasets with scripts we maintain in the open, and each article's methodology section says which dataset and what date range produced its figures. Drafting uses software assistance; a human editor reviews every article for accuracy and plain language before it is published, and the named reviewer signs off on the numbers. Publication dates are real. We do not backdate articles.

Corrections

If a number, date, or claim on this site is wrong, tell us at feedback@gavinrozzi.com. Confirmed errors get fixed in the article with an updated date. If a correction changes an article's conclusion, we say so in the text.

Update cadence

Job specifications are re-scraped monthly with field-level change tracking. Payroll statistics are refreshed each quarter from the State's YourMoney data. Salary schedules are updated annually from the new Compensation Compendium. See Data Sources & Methodology for the full pipeline documentation.