Boonton Town
Municipality · Morris County
59 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Boonton Town, reporting a median pensionable salary of $86,241.
Boonton Town is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Morris County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Morris County has 19 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in total, including this one.
About municipalities in New Jersey
New Jersey has 564 municipalities, and each one decides for itself whether to operate under Title 11A. A municipality that adopts civil service hires and promotes employees through competitive exams administered by the state; one that hasn't sets its own local hiring rules instead.
See all 19 civil service jurisdictions in Morris County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Boonton Town
59 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Boonton Town. That is a count of active memberships reported by the employer, not a payroll headcount: anyone not enrolled in one of these funds does not appear in this data at all, and no separate headcount for a New Jersey local employer is published anywhere we can check against.
| Fund | Name | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERS | Public Employees' Retirement System | 36 | 61% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 23 | 39% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 23 police officers. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Boonton Town actually appoints.
2 of these members hold a second public job in New Jersey: their reported salary across all public employers exceeds what they are paid here. Shared and part-time appointments are common in local government, and the salary figures below count only the portion earned at Boonton Town.
Pensionable salary at Boonton Town
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Boonton Town reports a pensionable salary above $86,241 and half below, across 59 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $43,330 |
| 25th percentile | $60,586 |
| Median | $86,241 |
| 75th percentile | $111,244 |
| 90th percentile | $152,505 |
The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile because the extremes are not informative: the lowest reported figures belong to part-time and partial-year members, whose credited salary is a fraction of a full-time equivalent.
Among the 10 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 90th percentile, above the county's midpoint of $80,127. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 81st percentile.
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.
How long people stay at Boonton Town
The median enrolled member at Boonton Town has 15.8 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 6.4 and 20.4 years. 27% have passed twenty years, which matters locally because retirement eligibility and the pension formula both turn on service credit.
| Credited service | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under 5 years | 13 | 22% |
| 5 to 10 years | 11 | 19% |
| 10 to 15 years | 5 | 8% |
| 15 to 20 years | 14 | 24% |
| 20 to 25 years | 8 | 14% |
| 25 years or more | 8 | 14% |
Membership tier records which pension rules a member was hired under, so the mix is a rough picture of how recently a workforce turned over. At Boonton Town, 31% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 23 | 39% |
| Tier 2 | 2 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 16 | 27% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 18 | 31% |
Other public employers in Boonton
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Boonton. Each is its own employer for pension purposes, and only some are civil service jurisdictions — school boards, charter schools and parking authorities are ordinary public employers that were never part of Title 11A. Names link only where the body appears in this directory.
| Employer | Enrolled members |
|---|---|
| BOONTON TOWN BD OF ED | 271 |
| BOONTON TWP BD OF ED | 74 |
| BOONTON TOWN (this page) | 59 |
| BOONTON TOWNSHIP | 21 |
| BOONTON HOUSING AUTHORITY | 3 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Boonton Town
In a municipality that operates under Title 11A, the mayor, administrator or governing body still decides which positions exist and who gets appointed to them. What changes is the route in. Most permanent positions have to be filled from a list of candidates who took and passed an open competitive examination.
That flips the usual job hunt around. For a competitive title you announce yourself by filing for the exam when it is posted, not by dropping a resume at the municipal building. Municipal employers also run the widest mix of titles in this directory: police and fire, public works and sanitation, code enforcement and construction inspection, tax collection, clerical support, recreation, and dispatch.
Your title, not your assignment, defines what you are supposed to be doing. If the duties you actually perform drift outside the specification for the title you hold, that is a classification question rather than a management preference, and an employee can ask for the position to be reviewed and reclassified. It is one of the quieter protections in the system and one of the least used.
Passing an examination puts you on an eligible list, not into a job. Lists are promulgated for a fixed life, commonly three years, and the Commission certifies names from the live list whenever an employer reports a vacancy. If no list exists for a title when a vacancy opens, the employer has to ask for an examination to be held.
Civil service employers in Boonton
Boonton Town appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the town government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Boonton appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Boonton that falls under Title 11A is a job with the town government itself.
Civil service titles used by New Jersey municipalities
Real classifications that New Jersey municipalities draw on, each linked to its official specification: the definition of the work, the requirements, and any licence the title depends on. A sample of the system rather than a roster or a list of openings.
Civil service coverage across Morris County
Morris County holds 19 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 9 municipalities, 8 public libraries, 1 county government, and 1 fire district.
9 of the county's 39 municipalities are among them.
Morris County is a jurisdiction too, though a county's decision does not bind the towns, authorities, libraries or districts inside it.
Also in the directory: Rockaway Township, Boonton Library, Butler Borough, Butler Library, Dover, Dover Library, Jefferson Township, Jefferson Township Library. See all 19 in Morris County.
Common questions about Boonton Town
Is Boonton Town a civil service employer?
Yes. Boonton Town appears in the New Jersey Civil Service Commission's listing of local civil service system jurisdictions as of July 2024, which makes it an appointing authority under Title 11A. Permanent appointments to competitive titles there come from eligible lists the Commission certifies, rather than from purely local hiring.
Do veterans get a preference on these lists?
Yes, and in New Jersey it is unusually strong. On an open competitive list, disabled veterans who pass are ranked ahead of all other candidates, and other veterans who pass are ranked ahead of non-veterans, regardless of score. Preference has to be claimed and verified in advance, and it does not carry over to promotional examinations.
Does permanent status transfer to another civil service employer?
Not automatically. Permanent status belongs to a title at a particular appointing authority, so moving to another jurisdiction usually means a new appointment and a new working test period. Intergovernmental transfers between civil service employers are possible in the same or a comparable title, but they need agreement on both sides rather than being a right you can exercise.
How many Boonton Town employees are in a State pension system?
59 active memberships are reported through Boonton Town, split across 36 in PERS and 23 in PFRS. This counts pension enrolment rather than payroll, so employees who are not in one of these funds are not included.
What is the median pensionable salary at Boonton Town?
$86,241, with the middle half of members between $60,586 and $111,244. 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. It excludes overtime and most supplemental pay, and it is before tax, before the member's own pension contribution and before health premiums.
How does pay at Boonton Town compare with the rest of Morris County?
Its median pensionable salary of $86,241 sits at the 90th percentile among the 10 civil service jurisdictions in Morris County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $80,127. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Boonton Town?
The median enrolled member has 15.8 years of credited service, and 27% have passed twenty years. Credited service drives both retirement eligibility and the pension formula, so a long-tenured workforce usually means fewer open competitive appointments in the near term.