Deptford Township
Municipality · Gloucester County
157 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Deptford Township, reporting a median pensionable salary of $57,116.
Deptford Township, a municipality in Gloucester County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Gloucester County, 10 local government entities in total carry this same confirmed status.
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 Deptford Township
157 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Deptford Township. 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 | 88 | 56% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 69 | 44% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 69 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 Deptford Township 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 Deptford Township.
Pensionable salary at Deptford Township
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Deptford Township reports a pensionable salary above $57,116 and half below, across 157 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $36,093 |
| 25th percentile | $42,742 |
| Median | $57,116 |
| 75th percentile | $81,361 |
| 90th percentile | $121,997 |
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 6 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 33rd percentile, below the county's midpoint of $70,419. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 9th 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 Deptford Township
The median enrolled member at Deptford Township has 8.8 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 3.8 and 18.3 years. 18% 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 | 51 | 32% |
| 5 to 10 years | 30 | 19% |
| 10 to 15 years | 25 | 16% |
| 15 to 20 years | 23 | 15% |
| 20 to 25 years | 18 | 11% |
| 25 years or more | 10 | 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 Deptford Township, 36% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 42 | 27% |
| Tier 2 | 7 | 4% |
| Tier 3 | 52 | 33% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 56 | 36% |
Other public employers in Deptford Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Deptford Township. 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 |
|---|---|
| DEPTFORD TWP BD OF ED | 685 |
| DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP (this page) | 157 |
| DEPTFORD TWP MUA | 23 |
| DEPTFORD TWP FIRE DISTRICT | 21 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Deptford Township
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.
Not every position at a civil service employer is competitive. The classified service is divided into competitive, noncompetitive and labor titles, and above that sits the unclassified service, which covers department heads, confidential aides and similar positions filled without an examination. Which division a title sits in decides how you get it, so read the specification before assuming there is an exam.
Temporary and seasonal appointments sit outside the permanent track entirely. Summer recreation staff, short-term project help and coverage for an absent employee are filled without an examination and end when the need does. The work counts as experience when you later apply for a competitive title, but it confers no status of its own.
Civil service employers in Deptford Township
Deptford Township appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the township government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Three other Deptford Township bodies hold civil service status separately from the township government, listed below. Each runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists, so Deptford Township is really four employers rather than one.
- Deptford Fire District (1), fire district
- Deptford Library, public library
- Deptford Municipal Utilities Authority, municipal utilities authority
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 Gloucester County
Gloucester County holds 10 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 3 public libraries, 2 municipalities, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 county government, 1 fire district, and 1 housing authority.
2 of the county's 24 municipalities are among them.
Gloucester 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: Monroe Township Library, Monroe Township Municipal Utilities Authority, Deptford Fire District (1), Deptford Library, Deptford Municipal Utilities Authority, Glassboro Housing Authority, Gloucester County Library, Monroe Township. See all 10 in Gloucester County.
Common questions about Deptford Township
Is Deptford Township a civil service employer?
Yes. Deptford Township 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.
Does civil service status at Deptford Township cover the rest of Deptford Township?
No. Deptford Township has more than one employer in the listing, and each holds its own status, runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists. Seniority and permanent status earned at one do not transfer automatically to another, even inside the same town.
Is there always a written test?
No. New Jersey runs both assembled examinations, where candidates are scheduled to sit a test, and unassembled ones, where a reviewer scores your education and experience against the requirements in the specification and there is no test day at all. The announcement says which kind it is. For an unassembled examination the application itself is the examination, so how fully you describe your experience is the score.
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.
How many Deptford Township employees are in a State pension system?
157 active memberships are reported through Deptford Township, split across 88 in PERS and 69 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 Deptford Township?
$57,116, with the middle half of members between $42,742 and $81,361. 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 Deptford Township compare with the rest of Gloucester County?
Its median pensionable salary of $57,116 sits at the 33rd percentile among the 6 civil service jurisdictions in Gloucester County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $70,419. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Deptford Township?
The median enrolled member has 8.8 years of credited service, and 18% 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.