NJ Civil Service Employer Directory

428 confirmed local civil service jurisdictions across 21 counties. Sourced from NJ Civil Service Commission, Workforce Profile — Appendix: Listing of Local Civil Service System Jurisdictions.

Browse civil service jobs by county

Atlantic County (16) · Bergen County (50) · Burlington County (35) · Camden County (30) · Cape May County (22) · Cumberland County (12) · Essex County (33) · Gloucester County (10) · Hudson County (40) · Hunterdon County (1) · Mercer County (7) · Middlesex County (19) · Monmouth County (25) · Morris County (19) · Ocean County (28) · Passaic County (20) · Salem County (5) · Somerset County · Sussex County (17) · Union County (23) · Warren County (16)

Common questions about NJ civil service employers

How do I tell whether a New Jersey employer is civil service?

This directory lists the 428 county, municipal, library, authority and other local bodies that have adopted Title 11A, transcribed from the Civil Service Commission's published listing. Because that listing is complete, a real New Jersey municipality that does not appear in it is not a civil service jurisdiction — the lookup tool reports that as a finding rather than as an unknown.

Does this directory show what these employers pay?

For 279 of the 428 listed bodies, yes: each page carries the pensionable salary distribution, workforce size and credited service of its pension-enrolled staff, benchmarked against the rest of its county. Local government pay is set by ordinance rather than a State salary schedule, so pension membership records are the only statewide source that covers it. The remaining bodies report through a parent municipality rather than separately, and their pages say which one.

How many people work for local government in New Jersey?

321,592 active pension memberships are reported at employers located in New Jersey counties, with a median pensionable salary of $72,494. That covers every public employer in the state, not only civil service jurisdictions, so it includes school districts, colleges and authorities alongside towns.

What is a commission-form municipality in this directory?

A handful of New Jersey municipalities hold civil service status department by department rather than as a whole, so each department appears as its own listed jurisdiction with a link back to its municipality. Pension reporting does not break out that way, so those pages show the municipality's figures and say so.