Glassboro Housing Authority
Housing Authority · Gloucester County
1 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Glassboro Housing Authority, reporting a median pensionable salary of $44,968.
Glassboro Housing Authority, a housing authority 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 housing authorities in New Jersey
A housing authority manages public and subsidized housing for a municipality or county, and it operates with its own board, budget, and staff, independent of the town government. Like libraries, that independence means a housing authority can be a civil service jurisdiction even when its home municipality is not, or vice versa.
See all 10 civil service jurisdictions in Gloucester County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Glassboro Housing Authority
1 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Glassboro Housing Authority. 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 | 1 | 100% |
Pensionable salary at Glassboro Housing Authority
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Glassboro Housing Authority reports a pensionable salary above $44,968 and half below, across 1 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $44,968 |
| 25th percentile | $44,968 |
| Median | $44,968 |
| 75th percentile | $44,968 |
| 90th percentile | $44,968 |
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 17th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $70,419. Against the 16 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 38th 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 Glassboro Housing Authority
The median enrolled member at Glassboro Housing Authority has 32.3 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 32.3 and 32.3 years. 100% have passed twenty years, which matters locally because retirement eligibility and the pension formula both turn on service credit.
| Credited service | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 25 years or more | 1 | 100% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Glassboro Housing Authority
A housing authority runs public and subsidized housing for its community with its own board of commissioners, its own budget, and staff who are not municipal employees. Its civil service status is decided on its own account, which is why an authority can appear in the Commission's listing when the town around it does not.
The staffing splits three ways. Management titles run the developments and the leasing operation. Housing assistance technicians handle eligibility, recertification and rent calculation for the voucher programs. Inspection titles cover unit condition and code compliance. Maintenance work is usually filled through the general trades and labor titles rather than housing-specific ones.
Permanent employees carry layoff rights. In a layoff, rights are determined by permanent status and seniority within the affected unit, displacement into another title can be available, and laid-off employees go onto a special reemployment list that takes priority when the title is filled again. None of that applies to provisional or temporary service.
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 Glassboro Borough
Glassboro Housing Authority serves Glassboro Borough, a borough in Gloucester County, but it is in the listing as a housing authority on its own account rather than as part of the borough government.
The Glassboro Borough municipal government does not appear in the same listing. The Commission publishes that appendix as a complete accounting of local civil service jurisdictions, so the practical reading is that a job at Glassboro Housing Authority comes with civil service rules attached while a job with the borough itself would not. Status in New Jersey attaches to the employer, never to the town as a place.
Civil service titles used by New Jersey housing authorities
Real classifications that New Jersey housing authorities 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: Deptford Fire District (1), Deptford Library, Deptford Municipal Utilities Authority, Deptford Township, Gloucester County Library, Monroe Township, Monroe Township Library, Monroe Township Municipal Utilities Authority. See all 10 in Gloucester County.
Common questions about Glassboro Housing Authority
Is Glassboro Housing Authority a civil service employer?
Yes. Glassboro Housing Authority 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.
Is Glassboro Borough a civil service town?
Glassboro Housing Authority is a civil service jurisdiction, but the Glassboro Borough municipal government is not in the same appendix. They are separate employers with separate status, so a job at Glassboro Housing Authority runs under civil service rules while a municipal job in Glassboro Borough would not.
Does the Civil Service Commission decide who gets hired?
No. The Commission runs the examination, ranks the candidates and certifies the list. The employer is the appointing authority: it decides whether to fill the position at all and which of the reachable candidates to appoint. That division is why a high score improves your odds without guaranteeing anything.
How do you find out when an examination is announced?
Announcements are published by the Civil Service Commission on their own schedule, each with a filing window that closes on a fixed date. Local employers do not always advertise separately, so watching the announcements directly is more reliable than watching a municipal website. Filing late is not curable, which makes the calendar the single most important part of the process.
How many Glassboro Housing Authority employees are in a State pension system?
1 active memberships are reported through Glassboro Housing Authority, split across 1 in PERS. 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 Glassboro Housing Authority?
$44,968, with the middle half of members between $44,968 and $44,968. 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 Glassboro Housing Authority compare with the rest of Gloucester County?
Its median pensionable salary of $44,968 sits at the 17th 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 Glassboro Housing Authority?
The median enrolled member has 32.3 years of credited service, and 100% 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.