Orange Housing Authority
Housing Authority · Essex County
19 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Orange Housing Authority, reporting a median pensionable salary of $40,486.
As a housing authority in Essex County, Orange Housing Authority 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 housing authorities in New Jersey
A housing authority manages public and subsidized housing for a municipality or county, and it operates with its own board, budget, and staff, independent of the town government. Like libraries, that independence means a housing authority can be a civil service jurisdiction even when its home municipality is not, or vice versa.
See all 33 civil service jurisdictions in Essex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Orange Housing Authority
19 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Orange Housing Authority. 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 | 19 | 100% |
Pensionable salary at Orange Housing Authority
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Orange Housing Authority reports a pensionable salary above $40,486 and half below, across 19 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $12,087 |
| 25th percentile | $33,388 |
| Median | $40,486 |
| 75th percentile | $63,589 |
| 90th percentile | $70,989 |
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 6th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $80,912. Against the 16 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 19th 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 Orange Housing Authority
The median enrolled member at Orange Housing Authority has 5.8 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 2.8 and 11.7 years. 11% 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 | 7 | 37% |
| 5 to 10 years | 6 | 32% |
| 10 to 15 years | 2 | 11% |
| 15 to 20 years | 2 | 11% |
| 25 years or more | 2 | 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 Orange Housing Authority, 79% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 3 | 16% |
| Tier 3 | 1 | 5% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 15 | 79% |
Other public employers in Orange Housing Authority
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Orange Housing Authority. 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 |
|---|---|
| ORANGE CITY BD OF ED | 910 |
| ORANGE CITY | 298 |
| ORANGE CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY (this page) | 19 |
| ORANGE CITY LIBRARY | 8 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Orange Housing Authority
A housing authority runs public and subsidized housing for its community with its own board of commissioners, its own budget, and staff who are not municipal employees. Its civil service status is decided on its own account, which is why an authority can appear in the Commission's listing when the town around it does not.
The staffing splits three ways. Management titles run the developments and the leasing operation. Housing assistance technicians handle eligibility, recertification and rent calculation for the voucher programs. Inspection titles cover unit condition and code compliance. Maintenance work is usually filled through the general trades and labor titles rather than housing-specific ones.
Admission to an examination is decided on paper before anyone sits down to take it. The requirements printed in the specification are checked against what you wrote on the application, so experience you did not describe is experience that does not count. Vague employment history is the most common reason a qualified applicant never reaches the list.
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.
Countywide civil service employers in Essex County
Orange Housing Authority operates countywide rather than inside one municipality, so it is not tied to a single town's civil service status the way a municipal library or a fire district is.
Four other countywide bodies in Essex County are in the listing as well. They are separate employers with separate hiring, and a candidate list certified to one is not certified to another.
- Essex County, county government
- Orange, municipality
- Orange City Library, public library
- South Essex Fire Department, fire district
Civil service titles used by New Jersey housing authorities
Real classifications that New Jersey housing authorities 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: East Orange, East Orange Library, Irvington, Irvington Housing Authority, Irvington Library, Millburn Library, Millburn Township, Newark. See all 33 in Essex County.
Common questions about Orange Housing Authority
Is Orange Housing Authority a civil service employer?
Yes. Orange Housing Authority 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 there always a written test?
No. New Jersey runs both assembled examinations, where candidates are scheduled to sit a test, and unassembled ones, where a reviewer scores your education and experience against the requirements in the specification and there is no test day at all. The announcement says which kind it is. For an unassembled examination the application itself is the examination, so how fully you describe your experience is the score.
Can you challenge an examination result?
Yes. Eligibility determinations, examination scoring and list placement can be appealed to the Civil Service Commission, and there are filing deadlines measured from the date of the notice rather than from when you happen to see it. The appeal route is the reason the notices matter: missing the window generally forecloses the argument.
How many Orange Housing Authority employees are in a State pension system?
19 active memberships are reported through Orange Housing Authority, split across 19 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 Orange Housing Authority?
$40,486, with the middle half of members between $33,388 and $63,589. 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 Orange Housing Authority compare with the rest of Essex County?
Its median pensionable salary of $40,486 sits at the 6th 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 Orange Housing Authority?
The median enrolled member has 5.8 years of credited service, and 11% 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.