Perth Amboy
Municipality · Middlesex County
390 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Perth Amboy, reporting a median pensionable salary of $75,235.
Perth Amboy, a municipality in Middlesex County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Middlesex 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.
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See all 19 civil service jurisdictions in Middlesex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Perth Amboy
390 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Perth Amboy. 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 | 199 | 51% |
| PERS | Public Employees' Retirement System | 191 | 49% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 117 police officers and 82 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Perth Amboy actually appoints.
Pensionable salary at Perth Amboy
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Perth Amboy reports a pensionable salary above $75,235 and half below, across 390 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $51,704 |
| 25th percentile | $59,563 |
| Median | $75,235 |
| 75th percentile | $112,411 |
| 90th percentile | $134,858 |
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 11 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 45th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $75,739. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 56th 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 Perth Amboy
The median enrolled member at Perth Amboy has 10.3 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 5.7 and 19.2 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 | 89 | 23% |
| 5 to 10 years | 97 | 25% |
| 10 to 15 years | 71 | 18% |
| 15 to 20 years | 40 | 10% |
| 20 to 25 years | 52 | 13% |
| 25 years or more | 41 | 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 Perth Amboy, 29% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 110 | 28% |
| Tier 2 | 11 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 151 | 39% |
| Tier 4 | 5 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 113 | 29% |
Other public employers in Perth Amboy
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Perth Amboy. 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 |
|---|---|
| PERTH AMBOY BD OF ED | 1,473 |
| PERTH AMBOY CITY (this page) | 390 |
| PERTH AMBOY HOUSING AUTHORITY | 20 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Perth Amboy
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.
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.
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.
Civil service employers in Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Perth Amboy 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 Middlesex County
Middlesex County holds 19 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 9 municipalities, 5 public libraries, 1 board of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 fire district, and 1 mosquito extermination commission.
9 of the county's 25 municipalities are among them.
Middlesex 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: South Amboy Library, South Plainfield, South Plainfield Library, Woodbridge Fire Districts (9), Woodbridge Library, Woodbridge Township, Carteret Board of Health, Carteret Borough. See all 19 in Middlesex County.
Common questions about Perth Amboy
Is Perth Amboy a civil service employer?
Yes. Perth Amboy 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.
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.
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.
How many Perth Amboy employees are in a State pension system?
390 active memberships are reported through Perth Amboy, split across 199 in PFRS and 191 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 Perth Amboy?
$75,235, with the middle half of members between $59,563 and $112,411. 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 Perth Amboy compare with the rest of Middlesex County?
Its median pensionable salary of $75,235 sits at the 45th percentile among the 11 civil service jurisdictions in Middlesex County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $75,739. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Perth Amboy?
The median enrolled member has 10.3 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.