Keansburg
Municipality · Monmouth County
78 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Keansburg, reporting a median pensionable salary of $89,414.
Keansburg, a municipality in Monmouth County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Monmouth County, 25 local government entities in total carry this same confirmed status.
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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See all 25 civil service jurisdictions in Monmouth County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Keansburg
78 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Keansburg. 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 | 44 | 56% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 34 | 44% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 34 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 Keansburg actually appoints.
1 of these members holds 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 Keansburg.
Pensionable salary at Keansburg
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Keansburg reports a pensionable salary above $89,414 and half below, across 78 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $45,543 |
| 25th percentile | $50,590 |
| Median | $89,414 |
| 75th percentile | $148,667 |
| 90th percentile | $175,195 |
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 21 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 81st percentile, above the county's midpoint of $73,546. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 89th 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 Keansburg
The median enrolled member at Keansburg has 10.7 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 4.1 and 20.7 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 | 23 | 29% |
| 5 to 10 years | 12 | 15% |
| 10 to 15 years | 15 | 19% |
| 15 to 20 years | 4 | 5% |
| 20 to 25 years | 12 | 15% |
| 25 years or more | 12 | 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 Keansburg, 32% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 26 | 33% |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 3 | 25 | 32% |
| Tier 4 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 25 | 32% |
Other public employers in Keansburg Borough
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Keansburg Borough. 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 |
|---|---|
| KEANSBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION | 239 |
| KEANSBURG BOROUGH (this page) | 78 |
| KEANSBURG BORO HOUSING AUTH | 2 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Keansburg
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.
Not every position at a civil service employer is competitive. The classified service is divided into competitive, noncompetitive and labor titles, and above that sits the unclassified service, which covers department heads, confidential aides and similar positions filled without an examination. Which division a title sits in decides how you get it, so read the specification before assuming there is an exam.
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.
Civil service employers in Keansburg Borough
Keansburg Borough appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the borough government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Keansburg Borough appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Keansburg Borough that falls under Title 11A is a job with the borough 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 Monmouth County
Monmouth County holds 25 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 16 municipalities, 4 fire districts, 2 housing authorities, 1 county government, 1 public library, and 1 municipal utilities authority.
16 of the county's 53 municipalities are among them.
Monmouth 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: Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Hazlet Fire District (1), Hazlet Township, Highlands Borough, Holmdel Township, Keyport Borough, Lake Como Borough. See all 25 in Monmouth County.
Common questions about Keansburg
Is Keansburg a civil service employer?
Yes. Keansburg 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.
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.
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 Keansburg employees are in a State pension system?
78 active memberships are reported through Keansburg, split across 44 in PERS and 34 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 Keansburg?
$89,414, with the middle half of members between $50,590 and $148,667. 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 Keansburg compare with the rest of Monmouth County?
Its median pensionable salary of $89,414 sits at the 81st percentile among the 21 civil service jurisdictions in Monmouth County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $73,546. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Keansburg?
The median enrolled member has 10.7 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.