Mount Laurel Township
Municipality · Burlington County
206 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Mount Laurel Township, reporting a median pensionable salary of $61,418.
Mount Laurel Township, a municipality in Burlington County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Burlington County, 35 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 Mount Laurel Township
206 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Mount Laurel 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 | 123 | 60% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 83 | 40% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 83 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 Mount Laurel Township actually appoints.
2 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 Mount Laurel Township.
Pensionable salary at Mount Laurel Township
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Mount Laurel Township reports a pensionable salary above $61,418 and half below, across 206 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $40,473 |
| 25th percentile | $49,848 |
| Median | $61,418 |
| 75th percentile | $83,364 |
| 90th percentile | $122,445 |
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 26 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 27th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $69,265. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 14th 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 Mount Laurel Township
The median enrolled member at Mount Laurel Township has 7.6 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 3.3 and 18.4 years. 22% 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 | 75 | 36% |
| 5 to 10 years | 51 | 25% |
| 10 to 15 years | 22 | 11% |
| 15 to 20 years | 12 | 6% |
| 20 to 25 years | 24 | 12% |
| 25 years or more | 22 | 11% |
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 Mount Laurel Township, 41% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 53 | 26% |
| Tier 2 | 6 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 63 | 31% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 84 | 41% |
Other public employers in Mount Laurel Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Mount Laurel Township. 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 |
|---|---|
| MOUNT LAUREL TWP BD OF ED | 765 |
| MOUNT LAUREL TOWNSHIP (this page) | 206 |
| MOUNT LAUREL TWP MUN UTIL AUTH | 70 |
| MOUNT LAUREL FIRE DISTRICT 1 | 65 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Mount Laurel 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.
When there is no eligible list for a title, an employer can fill the job provisionally. Provisional service is real work at real pay, but it builds no permanent rights, and the employer is supposed to request an examination so the position can be filled permanently. Anyone appointed provisionally who wants to keep the job needs to take that examination when it comes.
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.
Civil service employers in Mount Laurel Township
Mount Laurel Township appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the township government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Three other Mount Laurel Township bodies hold civil service status separately from the township government, listed below. Each runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists, so Mount Laurel Township is really four employers rather than one.
- Mount Laurel Fire District (1), fire district
- Mount Laurel Library, public library
- Mount Laurel Municipal Utilities Authority, municipal utilities authority
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 Burlington County
Burlington County holds 35 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 17 municipalities, 9 fire districts, 4 public libraries, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, and 1 housing authority.
17 of the county's 40 municipalities are among them.
Burlington 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: Delanco Township, Delran Fire District (1), Delran Township, Edgewater Park Fire District (1), Edgewater Park Township, Florence Fire District (1), Florence Township, Maple Shade. See all 35 in Burlington County.
Common questions about Mount Laurel Township
Is Mount Laurel Township a civil service employer?
Yes. Mount Laurel 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.
Does civil service status at Mount Laurel Township cover the rest of Mount Laurel Township?
No. Mount Laurel Township has more than one employer in the listing, and each holds its own status, runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists. Seniority and permanent status earned at one do not transfer automatically to another, even inside the same town.
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.
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.
How many Mount Laurel Township employees are in a State pension system?
206 active memberships are reported through Mount Laurel Township, split across 123 in PERS and 83 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 Mount Laurel Township?
$61,418, with the middle half of members between $49,848 and $83,364. 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 Mount Laurel Township compare with the rest of Burlington County?
Its median pensionable salary of $61,418 sits at the 27th percentile among the 26 civil service jurisdictions in Burlington County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $69,265. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Mount Laurel Township?
The median enrolled member has 7.6 years of credited service, and 22% 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.