Ewing Township
Municipality · Mercer County
240 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Ewing Township, reporting a median pensionable salary of $70,247.
Ewing Township is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Mercer County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Mercer County has 7 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 Ewing Township
240 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Ewing 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 | 125 | 52% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 115 | 48% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 82 police officers and 33 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Ewing 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 Ewing Township.
Pensionable salary at Ewing Township
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Ewing Township reports a pensionable salary above $70,247 and half below, across 240 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $36,719 |
| 25th percentile | $52,876 |
| Median | $70,247 |
| 75th percentile | $100,974 |
| 90th percentile | $125,287 |
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 50th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $70,258. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 42nd 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 Ewing Township
The median enrolled member at Ewing Township has 9.7 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 2.7 and 18.7 years. 22% 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 | 88 | 37% |
| 5 to 10 years | 36 | 15% |
| 10 to 15 years | 44 | 18% |
| 15 to 20 years | 19 | 8% |
| 20 to 25 years | 39 | 16% |
| 25 years or more | 14 | 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 Ewing Township, 32% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 64 | 27% |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 0% |
| Tier 3 | 97 | 40% |
| Tier 4 | 2 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 76 | 32% |
Other public employers in Ewing Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Ewing 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 |
|---|---|
| EWING TOWNSHIP BD OF ED | 620 |
| EWING TOWNSHIP (this page) | 240 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Ewing 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.
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.
Promotional examinations are closed. They are open to employees already serving in the unit, scored on a combination of the examination and seniority, and they are how most supervisory positions in local government get filled. It is the main reason entry-level appointments matter so much: they are the door to the ladder above them.
Civil service employers in Ewing Township
Ewing Township appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the township government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Ewing Township appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Ewing Township that falls under Title 11A is a job with the township 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 Mercer County
Mercer County holds 7 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 4 municipalities, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, and 1 public library.
4 of the county's 12 municipalities are among them.
Mercer 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: Lawrence Township, Mercer County Board of Social Services, Trenton, Trenton Library, Hamilton Township. See all 7 in Mercer County.
Common questions about Ewing Township
Is Ewing Township a civil service employer?
Yes. Ewing 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.
Are there jobs here that never go through an examination?
Yes. Unclassified positions, which typically include department heads and confidential staff, are filled at the discretion of the appointing authority. Noncompetitive and labor titles inside the classified service are also filled without a competitive examination, though they still sit under civil service rules for things like layoff rights.
How long does it take to get hired through this process?
Longer than an ordinary job application, and the timing is not in the hands of the employer. An announcement has to close, the examination has to be held and scored, the eligible list has to be promulgated, and only then can the employer request a certification. Several months between filing and an appointment is normal rather than a sign that something has gone wrong.
How many Ewing Township employees are in a State pension system?
240 active memberships are reported through Ewing Township, split across 125 in PERS and 115 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 Ewing Township?
$70,247, with the middle half of members between $52,876 and $100,974. 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 Ewing Township compare with the rest of Mercer County?
Its median pensionable salary of $70,247 sits at the 50th percentile among the 6 civil service jurisdictions in Mercer County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $70,258. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Ewing Township?
The median enrolled member has 9.7 years of credited service, and 22% 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.