Green Township
Municipality · Sussex County
13 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Green Township, reporting a median pensionable salary of $62,980.
Green Township is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Sussex County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Sussex County has 17 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 17 civil service jurisdictions in Sussex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Green Township
13 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Green 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 | 13 | 100% |
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 Green Township.
Pensionable salary at Green Township
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Green Township reports a pensionable salary above $62,980 and half below, across 13 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $39,368 |
| 25th percentile | $54,460 |
| Median | $62,980 |
| 75th percentile | $72,454 |
| 90th percentile | $86,464 |
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 13 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 46th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $63,156. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 18th 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 Green Township
The median enrolled member at Green Township has 14.1 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 4.8 and 20.3 years. 31% 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 | 4 | 31% |
| 5 to 10 years | 1 | 8% |
| 10 to 15 years | 2 | 15% |
| 15 to 20 years | 2 | 15% |
| 20 to 25 years | 2 | 15% |
| 25 years or more | 2 | 15% |
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 Green Township, 46% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 6 | 46% |
| Tier 4 | 1 | 8% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 6 | 46% |
Other public employers in Green Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Green 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 |
|---|---|
| GREEN TOWNSHIP BD OF ED | 59 |
| GREEN TOWNSHIP (this page) | 13 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Green 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.
When there is no eligible list for a title, an employer can fill the job provisionally. Provisional service is real work at real pay, but it builds no permanent rights, and the employer is supposed to request an examination so the position can be filled permanently. Anyone appointed provisionally who wants to keep the job needs to take that examination when it comes.
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 Green Township
Green 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 Green Township appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Green 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 Sussex County
Sussex County holds 17 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 12 municipalities, 3 boards of health, 1 county government, and 1 public library.
12 of the county's 24 municipalities are among them.
Sussex 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: Sparta Library, Sparta Township, Stanhope Borough, Stillwater Township, Vernon Township, Vernon Township Board of Health, Wantage Township, Andover Board of Health. See all 17 in Sussex County.
Common questions about Green Township
Is Green Township a civil service employer?
Yes. Green 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.
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.
How many Green Township employees are in a State pension system?
13 active memberships are reported through Green Township, split across 13 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 Green Township?
$62,980, with the middle half of members between $54,460 and $72,454. 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 Green Township compare with the rest of Sussex County?
Its median pensionable salary of $62,980 sits at the 46th percentile among the 13 civil service jurisdictions in Sussex County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $63,156. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Green Township?
The median enrolled member has 14.1 years of credited service, and 31% 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.