Long Branch
Municipality · Monmouth County
305 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Long Branch, reporting a median pensionable salary of $69,211.
As a municipality in Monmouth County, Long Branch falls under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system, which governs competitive hiring, classification, and promotion for its employees.
It is one of 25 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in Monmouth County.
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 Long Branch
305 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Long Branch. 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 | 189 | 62% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 116 | 38% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 93 police officers and 23 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Long Branch 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 Long Branch.
Pensionable salary at Long Branch
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Long Branch reports a pensionable salary above $69,211 and half below, across 305 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $43,675 |
| 25th percentile | $56,617 |
| Median | $69,211 |
| 75th percentile | $81,446 |
| 90th percentile | $121,202 |
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 38th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $73,546. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 37th 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 Branch
The median enrolled member at Long Branch has 9 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 4.4 and 20.3 years. 26% 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 | 92 | 30% |
| 5 to 10 years | 66 | 22% |
| 10 to 15 years | 44 | 14% |
| 15 to 20 years | 25 | 8% |
| 20 to 25 years | 51 | 17% |
| 25 years or more | 27 | 9% |
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 Branch, 41% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 85 | 28% |
| Tier 2 | 7 | 2% |
| Tier 3 | 86 | 28% |
| Tier 4 | 3 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 124 | 41% |
Other public employers in Long Branch
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Long Branch. 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 |
|---|---|
| LONG BRANCH BD OF ED | 935 |
| LONG BRANCH CITY (this page) | 305 |
| LONG BRANCH CITY HOUSING AUTH | 33 |
| LONG BRANCH SEWERAGE AUTHORITY | 20 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Long Branch
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.
Temporary and seasonal appointments sit outside the permanent track entirely. Summer recreation staff, short-term project help and coverage for an absent employee are filled without an examination and end when the need does. The work counts as experience when you later apply for a competitive title, but it confers no status of its own.
New Jersey does not require an employer to hire whoever scored highest. When a list is certified, the appointing authority may choose among the top three interested candidates, which is why a rank of two or three on a list is still a serious position and why interviews still decide outcomes.
Civil service employers in Long Branch
Long Branch City appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the city government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Long Branch appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Long Branch that falls under Title 11A is a job with the city 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: Hazlet Township, Highlands Borough, Holmdel Township, Keansburg, Keyport Borough, Lake Como Borough, Manasquan Borough, Manasquan Fire District (1). See all 25 in Monmouth County.
Common questions about Long Branch
Is Long Branch a civil service employer?
Yes. Long Branch 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.
Does the state salary schedule apply to local jobs?
No. The salary schedules in the Compensation Compendium cover state employees. A local employer sets its own pay through ordinance and its own collective bargaining, so two towns using the identical civil service title can pay very differently. The title specification is statewide; the money attached to it is local.
How long does it take to get hired through this process?
Longer than an ordinary job application, and the timing is not in the hands of the employer. An announcement has to close, the examination has to be held and scored, the eligible list has to be promulgated, and only then can the employer request a certification. Several months between filing and an appointment is normal rather than a sign that something has gone wrong.
How many Long Branch employees are in a State pension system?
305 active memberships are reported through Long Branch, split across 189 in PERS and 116 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 Branch?
$69,211, with the middle half of members between $56,617 and $81,446. 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 Branch compare with the rest of Monmouth County?
Its median pensionable salary of $69,211 sits at the 38th 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 Long Branch?
The median enrolled member has 9 years of credited service, and 26% 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.