Morristown
Municipality · Morris County
184 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Morristown, reporting a median pensionable salary of $79,313.
Morristown, a municipality in Morris County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Morris County, 19 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.
Morristown Police Department — discipline and transparency records via PoliceTransparencyNJ
See all 19 civil service jurisdictions in Morris County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Morristown
184 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Morristown. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 98 | 53% |
| PERS | Public Employees' Retirement System | 86 | 47% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 63 police officers and 35 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Morristown actually appoints.
5 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 Morristown.
Pensionable salary at Morristown
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Morristown reports a pensionable salary above $79,313 and half below, across 184 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $50,514 |
| 25th percentile | $63,365 |
| Median | $79,313 |
| 75th percentile | $118,465 |
| 90th percentile | $141,801 |
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 10 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 50th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $80,127. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 66th 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 Morristown
The median enrolled member at Morristown has 11.5 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 6.1 and 19.8 years. 24% 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 | 44 | 24% |
| 5 to 10 years | 35 | 19% |
| 10 to 15 years | 34 | 18% |
| 15 to 20 years | 26 | 14% |
| 20 to 25 years | 30 | 16% |
| 25 years or more | 15 | 8% |
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 Morristown, 28% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 62 | 34% |
| Tier 2 | 7 | 4% |
| Tier 3 | 62 | 34% |
| Tier 4 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 52 | 28% |
Other public employers in Morristown
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Morristown. 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 |
|---|---|
| MORRISTOWN TOWN (this page) | 184 |
| MORRISTOWN PARKING AUTHORITY | 27 |
| MORRISTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY | 9 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Morristown
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 Morristown
Morristown 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 Morristown appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Morristown 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 Morris County
Morris County holds 19 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 9 municipalities, 8 public libraries, 1 county government, and 1 fire district.
9 of the county's 39 municipalities are among them.
Morris 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: Rockaway Township, Boonton Library, Boonton Town, Butler Borough, Butler Library, Dover, Dover Library, Jefferson Township. See all 19 in Morris County.
Common questions about Morristown
Is Morristown a civil service employer?
Yes. Morristown 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 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.
Does the Civil Service Commission decide who gets hired?
No. The Commission runs the examination, ranks the candidates and certifies the list. The employer is the appointing authority: it decides whether to fill the position at all and which of the reachable candidates to appoint. That division is why a high score improves your odds without guaranteeing anything.
How many Morristown employees are in a State pension system?
184 active memberships are reported through Morristown, split across 98 in PFRS and 86 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 Morristown?
$79,313, with the middle half of members between $63,365 and $118,465. 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 Morristown compare with the rest of Morris County?
Its median pensionable salary of $79,313 sits at the 50th percentile among the 10 civil service jurisdictions in Morris County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $80,127. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Morristown?
The median enrolled member has 11.5 years of credited service, and 24% 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.