Hammonton
Municipality · Atlantic County
78 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Hammonton, reporting a median pensionable salary of $63,441.
Hammonton is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Atlantic County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Atlantic County has 16 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.
Hammonton Police Department — discipline and transparency records via PoliceTransparencyNJ
See all 16 civil service jurisdictions in Atlantic County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Hammonton
78 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Hammonton. 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 | 45 | 58% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 33 | 42% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 33 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 Hammonton actually appoints.
3 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 Hammonton.
Pensionable salary at Hammonton
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Hammonton reports a pensionable salary above $63,441 and half below, across 78 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $37,121 |
| 25th percentile | $43,728 |
| Median | $63,441 |
| 75th percentile | $98,671 |
| 90th percentile | $131,118 |
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 11 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 45th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $64,764. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 20th 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 Hammonton
The median enrolled member at Hammonton has 7.6 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 3.8 and 18.7 years. 21% 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 | 30 | 38% |
| 5 to 10 years | 18 | 23% |
| 10 to 15 years | 6 | 8% |
| 15 to 20 years | 8 | 10% |
| 20 to 25 years | 7 | 9% |
| 25 years or more | 9 | 12% |
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 Hammonton, 42% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 20 | 26% |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 3 | 24 | 31% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 33 | 42% |
Other public employers in Hammonton
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Hammonton. 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 |
|---|---|
| HAMMONTON TOWN BD OF ED | 443 |
| HAMMONTON TOWN (this page) | 78 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Hammonton
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.
Passing an examination puts you on an eligible list, not into a job. Lists are promulgated for a fixed life, commonly three years, and the Commission certifies names from the live list whenever an employer reports a vacancy. If no list exists for a title when a vacancy opens, the employer has to ask for an examination to be held.
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.
Civil service employers in Hammonton
Hammonton Town appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the town government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Hammonton appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Hammonton that falls under Title 11A is a job with the town 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 Atlantic County
Atlantic County holds 16 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 8 municipalities, 3 municipal departments, 2 public libraries, 2 municipal utilities authorities, and 1 county government.
8 of the county's 23 municipalities are among them.
Atlantic 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: Margate Public Works, Margate Revenue and Finance, Pleasantville, Somers Point, Ventnor City, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Library, Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority. See all 16 in Atlantic County.
Common questions about Hammonton
Is Hammonton a civil service employer?
Yes. Hammonton 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.
Can you challenge an examination result?
Yes. Eligibility determinations, examination scoring and list placement can be appealed to the Civil Service Commission, and there are filing deadlines measured from the date of the notice rather than from when you happen to see it. The appeal route is the reason the notices matter: missing the window generally forecloses the argument.
Is the job specification the same everywhere?
Yes, and that is the point of the classification system. A title has one specification statewide, covering the definition of the work, the education and experience requirements, and any licence the title depends on. That is what makes experience gained at one civil service employer legible to another, even in a different county.
How many Hammonton employees are in a State pension system?
78 active memberships are reported through Hammonton, split across 45 in PERS and 33 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 Hammonton?
$63,441, with the middle half of members between $43,728 and $98,671. 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 Hammonton compare with the rest of Atlantic County?
Its median pensionable salary of $63,441 sits at the 45th percentile among the 11 civil service jurisdictions in Atlantic County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $64,764. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Hammonton?
The median enrolled member has 7.6 years of credited service, and 21% 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.