Nutley
Municipality · Essex County
247 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Nutley, reporting a median pensionable salary of $82,816.
As a municipality in Essex County, Nutley falls under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system, which governs competitive hiring, classification, and promotion for its employees.
It is one of 33 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in Essex 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.
Department-level jurisdictions
Nutley Police Department — discipline and transparency records via PoliceTransparencyNJ
See all 33 civil service jurisdictions in Essex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Nutley
247 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Nutley. 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 | 142 | 57% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 105 | 43% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 58 police officers and 47 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Nutley 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 Nutley.
Pensionable salary at Nutley
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Nutley reports a pensionable salary above $82,816 and half below, across 247 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $40,385 |
| 25th percentile | $56,860 |
| Median | $82,816 |
| 75th percentile | $127,658 |
| 90th percentile | $144,057 |
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 18 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 56th percentile, above the county's midpoint of $80,912. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 75th 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 Nutley
The median enrolled member at Nutley has 12.3 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 5.3 and 21.3 years. 29% 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 | 59 | 24% |
| 5 to 10 years | 39 | 16% |
| 10 to 15 years | 45 | 18% |
| 15 to 20 years | 32 | 13% |
| 20 to 25 years | 48 | 19% |
| 25 years or more | 24 | 10% |
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 Nutley, 30% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 83 | 34% |
| Tier 2 | 7 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 84 | 34% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 73 | 30% |
Other public employers in Nutley Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Nutley 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 |
|---|---|
| NUTLEY BD OF ED | 559 |
| NUTLEY TOWNSHIP (this page) | 247 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Nutley
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.
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.
Permanent employees carry layoff rights. In a layoff, rights are determined by permanent status and seniority within the affected unit, displacement into another title can be available, and laid-off employees go onto a special reemployment list that takes priority when the title is filled again. None of that applies to provisional or temporary service.
Civil service employers in Nutley Township
Nutley Township appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the township government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Six other Nutley 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 Nutley Township is really seven employers rather than one.
- Nutley Library, public library
- Nutley Parks and Public Property, municipal department
- Nutley Public Affairs, municipal department
- Nutley Public Safety, municipal department
- Nutley Public Works, municipal department
- Nutley Revenue and Finance, municipal department
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 Essex County
Essex County holds 33 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 11 public libraries, 11 municipalities, 5 municipal departments, 2 housing authorities, 1 board of health, 1 county government, 1 fire district, and 1 school district.
11 of the county's 22 municipalities are among them.
Essex 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: Nutley Parks and Public Property, Nutley Public Affairs, Nutley Public Safety, Nutley Public Works, Nutley Revenue and Finance, Orange, Orange City Library, Orange Housing Authority. See all 33 in Essex County.
Common questions about Nutley
Is Nutley a civil service employer?
Yes. Nutley 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 Nutley cover the rest of Nutley Township?
No. Nutley 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 veterans get a preference on these lists?
Yes, and in New Jersey it is unusually strong. On an open competitive list, disabled veterans who pass are ranked ahead of all other candidates, and other veterans who pass are ranked ahead of non-veterans, regardless of score. Preference has to be claimed and verified in advance, and it does not carry over to promotional examinations.
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 Nutley employees are in a State pension system?
247 active memberships are reported through Nutley, split across 142 in PERS and 105 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 Nutley?
$82,816, with the middle half of members between $56,860 and $127,658. 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 Nutley compare with the rest of Essex County?
Its median pensionable salary of $82,816 sits at the 56th percentile among the 18 civil service jurisdictions in Essex County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $80,912. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Nutley?
The median enrolled member has 12.3 years of credited service, and 29% 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.