Sayreville Borough
Municipality · Middlesex County
273 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Sayreville Borough, reporting a median pensionable salary of $85,200.
Sayreville Borough, 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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Who is on the pension rolls at Sayreville Borough
273 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Sayreville Borough. 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 | 179 | 66% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 94 | 34% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 94 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 Sayreville Borough actually appoints.
3 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 Sayreville Borough.
Pensionable salary at Sayreville Borough
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Sayreville Borough reports a pensionable salary above $85,200 and half below, across 273 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $49,621 |
| 25th percentile | $69,871 |
| Median | $85,200 |
| 75th percentile | $110,793 |
| 90th percentile | $154,832 |
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 82nd percentile, above the county's midpoint of $75,739. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 79th 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 Sayreville Borough
The median enrolled member at Sayreville Borough has 9.6 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 5.5 and 21.3 years. 28% 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 | 65 | 24% |
| 5 to 10 years | 76 | 28% |
| 10 to 15 years | 29 | 11% |
| 15 to 20 years | 27 | 10% |
| 20 to 25 years | 34 | 12% |
| 25 years or more | 42 | 15% |
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 Sayreville Borough, 44% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 89 | 33% |
| Tier 2 | 5 | 2% |
| Tier 3 | 60 | 22% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 119 | 44% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Sayreville Borough
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.
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 Sayreville Borough
Sayreville Borough appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the borough government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Nothing else in Sayreville Borough appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Sayreville Borough that falls under Title 11A is a job with the borough 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 Sayreville Borough
Is Sayreville Borough a civil service employer?
Yes. Sayreville Borough 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.
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.
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.
How many Sayreville Borough employees are in a State pension system?
273 active memberships are reported through Sayreville Borough, split across 179 in PERS and 94 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 Sayreville Borough?
$85,200, with the middle half of members between $69,871 and $110,793. 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 Sayreville Borough compare with the rest of Middlesex County?
Its median pensionable salary of $85,200 sits at the 82nd 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 Sayreville Borough?
The median enrolled member has 9.6 years of credited service, and 28% 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.