North Wildwood City
Municipality · Cape May County
112 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through North Wildwood City, reporting a median pensionable salary of $53,901.
North Wildwood City is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Cape May County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Cape May County has 22 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in total, including this one.
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 22 civil service jurisdictions in Cape May County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at North Wildwood City
112 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through North Wildwood City. 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 | 60 | 54% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 52 | 46% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 34 police officers and 18 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles North Wildwood City 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 North Wildwood City.
Pensionable salary at North Wildwood City
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at North Wildwood City reports a pensionable salary above $53,901 and half below, across 112 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $16,535 |
| 25th percentile | $40,164 |
| Median | $53,901 |
| 75th percentile | $86,934 |
| 90th percentile | $122,025 |
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 16 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 25th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $60,305. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 5th 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 North Wildwood City
The median enrolled member at North Wildwood City has 8.2 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 2.9 and 15.9 years. 12% 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 | 41 | 37% |
| 5 to 10 years | 23 | 21% |
| 10 to 15 years | 17 | 15% |
| 15 to 20 years | 18 | 16% |
| 20 to 25 years | 6 | 5% |
| 25 years or more | 7 | 6% |
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 North Wildwood City, 39% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 24 | 21% |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 3 | 43 | 38% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 44 | 39% |
Other public employers in North Wildwood
The pension system reports these separate public employers in North Wildwood. 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 |
|---|---|
| NORTH WILDWOOD CITY (this page) | 112 |
| NORTH WILDWOOD BD OF ED | 53 |
What civil service status means for jobs at North Wildwood City
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.
Promotional examinations are closed. They are open to employees already serving in the unit, scored on a combination of the examination and seniority, and they are how most supervisory positions in local government get filled. It is the main reason entry-level appointments matter so much: they are the door to the ladder above them.
Civil service employers in North Wildwood
North Wildwood 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 North Wildwood appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in North Wildwood 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 Cape May County
Cape May County holds 22 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 11 municipalities, 3 municipal departments, 2 housing authorities, 2 public libraries, 1 county government, 1 fire district, 1 school district, and 1 municipal utilities authority.
11 of the county's 16 municipalities are among them.
Cape May 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: Lower Township, Lower Township Municipal Utilities Authority, Middle Township, Middle Township Fire Districts (4), Middle Township School District, Ocean City, Ocean City Housing Authority, Ocean City Library. See all 22 in Cape May County.
Common questions about North Wildwood City
Is North Wildwood City a civil service employer?
Yes. North Wildwood City 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 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.
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 many North Wildwood City employees are in a State pension system?
112 active memberships are reported through North Wildwood City, split across 60 in PERS and 52 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 North Wildwood City?
$53,901, with the middle half of members between $40,164 and $86,934. 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 North Wildwood City compare with the rest of Cape May County?
Its median pensionable salary of $53,901 sits at the 25th percentile among the 16 civil service jurisdictions in Cape May County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $60,305. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at North Wildwood City?
The median enrolled member has 8.2 years of credited service, and 12% 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.