Long Beach Township
Municipality · Ocean County
129 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Long Beach Township, reporting a median pensionable salary of $67,553.
Long Beach Township, a municipality in Ocean County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Ocean County, 28 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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Who is on the pension rolls at Long Beach Township
129 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Long Beach 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 | 98 | 76% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 31 | 24% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 31 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 Long Beach Township actually appoints.
Pensionable salary at Long Beach Township
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Long Beach Township reports a pensionable salary above $67,553 and half below, across 129 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $45,735 |
| 25th percentile | $52,694 |
| Median | $67,553 |
| 75th percentile | $94,735 |
| 90th percentile | $140,386 |
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 23 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 61st percentile, above the county's midpoint of $67,000. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 30th 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 Long Beach Township
The median enrolled member at Long Beach Township has 9.9 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 5 and 15.3 years. 11% 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 | 32 | 25% |
| 5 to 10 years | 33 | 26% |
| 10 to 15 years | 29 | 22% |
| 15 to 20 years | 21 | 16% |
| 20 to 25 years | 10 | 8% |
| 25 years or more | 4 | 3% |
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 Long Beach Township, 59% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 26 | 20% |
| Tier 2 | 2 | 2% |
| Tier 3 | 22 | 17% |
| Tier 4 | 3 | 2% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 76 | 59% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Long Beach 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.
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.
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.
Civil service employers in Long Beach Township
Long Beach 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 Long Beach Township appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Long Beach 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 Ocean County
Ocean County holds 28 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 16 municipalities, 3 fire districts, 2 school districts, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 public library, and 1 mosquito extermination commission.
16 of the county's 33 municipalities are among them.
Ocean 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: Jackson Township, Lacey Township, Lakehurst, Lakewood Fire District (1), Lakewood Municipal Utilities Authority, Lakewood Township, Lavallette, Little Egg Harbor Township. See all 28 in Ocean County.
Common questions about Long Beach Township
Is Long Beach Township a civil service employer?
Yes. Long Beach 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.
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.
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.
How many Long Beach Township employees are in a State pension system?
129 active memberships are reported through Long Beach Township, split across 98 in PERS and 31 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 Long Beach Township?
$67,553, with the middle half of members between $52,694 and $94,735. 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 Long Beach Township compare with the rest of Ocean County?
Its median pensionable salary of $67,553 sits at the 61st percentile among the 23 civil service jurisdictions in Ocean County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $67,000. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Long Beach Township?
The median enrolled member has 9.9 years of credited service, and 11% 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.