Seaside Park
Municipality · Ocean County
31 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Seaside Park, reporting a median pensionable salary of $89,697.
Seaside Park, a municipality in Ocean County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Ocean County, 28 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 Seaside Park
31 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Seaside Park. 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 | 18 | 58% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 13 | 42% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 13 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 Seaside Park actually appoints.
Pensionable salary at Seaside Park
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Seaside Park reports a pensionable salary above $89,697 and half below, across 31 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $56,264 |
| 25th percentile | $66,598 |
| Median | $89,697 |
| 75th percentile | $124,298 |
| 90th percentile | $138,152 |
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 23 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 96th percentile, above the county's midpoint of $67,000. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 89th 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 Seaside Park
The median enrolled member at Seaside Park has 11.7 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 6 and 22.1 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 | 7 | 23% |
| 5 to 10 years | 7 | 23% |
| 10 to 15 years | 3 | 10% |
| 15 to 20 years | 5 | 16% |
| 20 to 25 years | 3 | 10% |
| 25 years or more | 6 | 19% |
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 Seaside Park, 39% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 12 | 39% |
| Tier 3 | 7 | 23% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 12 | 39% |
What civil service status means for jobs at Seaside Park
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.
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.
A permanent appointment starts with a working test period. You hold the title, you draw the salary, and you can still be released for unsatisfactory performance without the full removal process. Permanent status, and the job protection that comes with it, begins only once that period is completed satisfactorily.
Civil service employers in Seaside Park Borough
Seaside Park 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 Seaside Park Borough appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Seaside Park 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 Ocean County
Ocean County holds 28 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 16 municipalities, 3 fire districts, 2 school districts, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 public library, and 1 mosquito extermination commission.
16 of the county's 33 municipalities are among them.
Ocean 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: Beachwood Borough, Berkeley School District, Berkeley Township, Brick Fire District (1), Brick School District, Brick Township, Jackson Fire Districts (3), Jackson Municipal Utilities Authority. See all 28 in Ocean County.
Common questions about Seaside Park
Is Seaside Park a civil service employer?
Yes. Seaside Park 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 Seaside Park employees are in a State pension system?
31 active memberships are reported through Seaside Park, split across 18 in PERS and 13 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 Seaside Park?
$89,697, with the middle half of members between $66,598 and $124,298. 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 Seaside Park compare with the rest of Ocean County?
Its median pensionable salary of $89,697 sits at the 96th percentile among the 23 civil service jurisdictions in Ocean County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $67,000. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Seaside Park?
The median enrolled member has 11.7 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.