Sea Isle City
Municipality · Cape May County
107 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Sea Isle City, reporting a median pensionable salary of $66,413.
Sea Isle 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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Who is on the pension rolls at Sea Isle City
107 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Sea Isle 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 | 82 | 77% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 25 | 23% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 25 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 Sea Isle 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 Sea Isle City.
Pensionable salary at Sea Isle City
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Sea Isle City reports a pensionable salary above $66,413 and half below, across 107 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $42,123 |
| 25th percentile | $55,540 |
| Median | $66,413 |
| 75th percentile | $96,452 |
| 90th percentile | $134,908 |
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 63rd percentile, above the county's midpoint of $60,305. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 25th 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 Sea Isle City
The median enrolled member at Sea Isle City has 11.4 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 5.4 and 20.7 years. 27% 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 | 25 | 23% |
| 5 to 10 years | 26 | 24% |
| 10 to 15 years | 14 | 13% |
| 15 to 20 years | 13 | 12% |
| 20 to 25 years | 13 | 12% |
| 25 years or more | 16 | 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 Sea Isle City, 47% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 34 | 32% |
| Tier 2 | 2 | 2% |
| Tier 3 | 20 | 19% |
| Tier 4 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 50 | 47% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Sea Isle 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.
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.
Passing an examination puts you on an eligible list, not into a job. Lists are promulgated for a fixed life, commonly three years, and the Commission certifies names from the live list whenever an employer reports a vacancy. If no list exists for a title when a vacancy opens, the employer has to ask for an examination to be held.
Civil service employers in Sea Isle City
Sea Isle 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 Sea Isle City appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Sea Isle City 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: Wildwood City Revenue and Finance, Wildwood Crest Borough, Woodbine Borough, Cape May City, Cape May County Library, Dennis Township, Lower Township, Lower Township Municipal Utilities Authority. See all 22 in Cape May County.
Common questions about Sea Isle City
Is Sea Isle City a civil service employer?
Yes. Sea Isle 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.
Are there jobs here that never go through an examination?
Yes. Unclassified positions, which typically include department heads and confidential staff, are filled at the discretion of the appointing authority. Noncompetitive and labor titles inside the classified service are also filled without a competitive examination, though they still sit under civil service rules for things like layoff rights.
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 Sea Isle City employees are in a State pension system?
107 active memberships are reported through Sea Isle City, split across 82 in PERS and 25 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 Sea Isle City?
$66,413, with the middle half of members between $55,540 and $96,452. 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 Sea Isle City compare with the rest of Cape May County?
Its median pensionable salary of $66,413 sits at the 63rd 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 Sea Isle City?
The median enrolled member has 11.4 years of credited service, and 27% 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.