Haddon Township Housing Authority
Housing Authority · Camden County
4 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Haddon Township Housing Authority, reporting a median pensionable salary of $58,166.
Haddon Township Housing Authority is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a housing authority in Camden County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Camden County has 30 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in total, including this one.
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 30 civil service jurisdictions in Camden County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Haddon Township Housing Authority
4 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Haddon Township 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 | 4 | 100% |
Pensionable salary at Haddon Township Housing Authority
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Haddon Township Housing Authority reports a pensionable salary above $58,166 and half below, across 4 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $47,145 |
| 25th percentile | $47,722 |
| Median | $58,166 |
| 75th percentile | $71,362 |
| 90th percentile | $76,892 |
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 22 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 14th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $68,886. Against the 16 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 81st 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 Haddon Township Housing Authority
The median enrolled member at Haddon Township Housing Authority has 14.8 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 7.9 and 24.7 years. 50% have passed twenty years, which matters locally because retirement eligibility and the pension formula both turn on service credit.
| Credited service | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 5 to 10 years | 2 | 50% |
| 20 to 25 years | 1 | 25% |
| 25 years or more | 1 | 25% |
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 Haddon Township Housing Authority, 50% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 2 | 50% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 2 | 50% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Haddon Township 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.
Your title, not your assignment, defines what you are supposed to be doing. If the duties you actually perform drift outside the specification for the title you hold, that is a classification question rather than a management preference, and an employee can ask for the position to be reviewed and reclassified. It is one of the quieter protections in the system and one of the least used.
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.
Civil service employers in Haddon Township
Haddon Township Housing Authority serves Haddon Township, a township in Camden County, but it is in the listing as a housing authority on its own account rather than as part of the township government.
The Haddon Township 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 Haddon Township Housing Authority comes with civil service rules attached while a job with the township 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 Camden County
Camden County holds 30 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 15 municipalities, 4 public libraries, 3 fire districts, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 housing authority, 1 mosquito extermination commission, and 1 redevelopment agency.
15 of the county's 36 municipalities are among them.
Camden 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: Runnemede Library, Somerdale Borough, Stratford Borough, Voorhees Township, Winslow Township, Winslow Township Fire District (1), Woodlynne Borough, Brooklawn Borough. See all 30 in Camden County.
Common questions about Haddon Township Housing Authority
Is Haddon Township Housing Authority a civil service employer?
Yes. Haddon Township 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 Haddon Township a civil service town?
Haddon Township Housing Authority is a civil service jurisdiction, but the Haddon Township municipal government is not in the same appendix. They are separate employers with separate status, so a job at Haddon Township Housing Authority runs under civil service rules while a municipal job in Haddon Township would not.
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 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 Haddon Township Housing Authority employees are in a State pension system?
4 active memberships are reported through Haddon Township Housing Authority, split across 4 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 Haddon Township Housing Authority?
$58,166, with the middle half of members between $47,722 and $71,362. 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 Haddon Township Housing Authority compare with the rest of Camden County?
Its median pensionable salary of $58,166 sits at the 14th percentile among the 22 civil service jurisdictions in Camden County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $68,886. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Haddon Township Housing Authority?
The median enrolled member has 14.8 years of credited service, and 50% 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.