Bordentown City
Municipality · Burlington County
32 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Bordentown City, reporting a median pensionable salary of $69,998.
Bordentown City is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Burlington County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Burlington County has 35 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.
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Who is on the pension rolls at Bordentown City
32 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Bordentown City. 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 | 20 | 63% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 12 | 38% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 12 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 Bordentown City 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 Bordentown City.
Pensionable salary at Bordentown City
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Bordentown City reports a pensionable salary above $69,998 and half below, across 32 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $46,299 |
| 25th percentile | $50,863 |
| Median | $69,998 |
| 75th percentile | $114,441 |
| 90th percentile | $130,375 |
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 26 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 54th percentile, above the county's midpoint of $69,265. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 40th 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 Bordentown City
The median enrolled member at Bordentown City has 8.6 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 7.2 and 18.7 years. 16% 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 | 6 | 19% |
| 5 to 10 years | 11 | 34% |
| 10 to 15 years | 4 | 13% |
| 15 to 20 years | 6 | 19% |
| 20 to 25 years | 3 | 9% |
| 25 years or more | 2 | 6% |
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 Bordentown City, 41% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 10 | 31% |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 8 | 25% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 13 | 41% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Bordentown City
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.
Admission to an examination is decided on paper before anyone sits down to take it. The requirements printed in the specification are checked against what you wrote on the application, so experience you did not describe is experience that does not count. Vague employment history is the most common reason a qualified applicant never reaches the list.
New Jersey does not require an employer to hire whoever scored highest. When a list is certified, the appointing authority may choose among the top three interested candidates, which is why a rank of two or three on a list is still a serious position and why interviews still decide outcomes.
Civil service employers in Bordentown
Bordentown City appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the city government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Bordentown appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Bordentown that falls under Title 11A is a job with the city 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 Burlington County
Burlington County holds 35 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 17 municipalities, 9 fire districts, 4 public libraries, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, and 1 housing authority.
17 of the county's 40 municipalities are among them.
Burlington 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: Bordentown Township, Bordentown Township Fire Districts (2), Burlington City, Burlington City Housing Authority, Burlington County Board of Social Services, Burlington County Library, Burlington Township, Burlington Township Fire District (1). See all 35 in Burlington County.
Common questions about Bordentown City
Is Bordentown City a civil service employer?
Yes. Bordentown City 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 you have to live in New Jersey to work here?
Generally yes. The New Jersey First Act requires public employees hired after September 1, 2011 to live in the state, with a grace period for new hires to relocate and a narrow exemption process. Separately, individual examination announcements sometimes carry a local residency preference, which affects the order of the list rather than eligibility.
Can you challenge an examination result?
Yes. Eligibility determinations, examination scoring and list placement can be appealed to the Civil Service Commission, and there are filing deadlines measured from the date of the notice rather than from when you happen to see it. The appeal route is the reason the notices matter: missing the window generally forecloses the argument.
How many Bordentown City employees are in a State pension system?
32 active memberships are reported through Bordentown City, split across 20 in PERS and 12 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 Bordentown City?
$69,998, with the middle half of members between $50,863 and $114,441. 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 Bordentown City compare with the rest of Burlington County?
Its median pensionable salary of $69,998 sits at the 54th percentile among the 26 civil service jurisdictions in Burlington County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $69,265. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Bordentown City?
The median enrolled member has 8.6 years of credited service, and 16% 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.