Ventnor City
Municipality · Atlantic County
150 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Ventnor City, reporting a median pensionable salary of $80,516.
Ventnor City is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Atlantic County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Atlantic County has 16 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.
Ventnor Police Department — discipline and transparency records via PoliceTransparencyNJ
See all 16 civil service jurisdictions in Atlantic County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Ventnor City
150 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Ventnor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 83 | 55% |
| PERS | Public Employees' Retirement System | 67 | 45% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 36 police officers and 47 firefighters. PFRS enrolment is the only occupational detail this dataset carries; it lists no job titles, so nothing here says which civil service titles Ventnor City actually appoints.
Pensionable salary at Ventnor City
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Ventnor City reports a pensionable salary above $80,516 and half below, across 150 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $38,420 |
| 25th percentile | $60,300 |
| Median | $80,516 |
| 75th percentile | $119,860 |
| 90th percentile | $143,562 |
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 $64,764. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 69th 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 Ventnor City
The median enrolled member at Ventnor City has 12.8 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 7.3 and 20.2 years. 26% 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 | 30 | 20% |
| 5 to 10 years | 29 | 19% |
| 10 to 15 years | 28 | 19% |
| 15 to 20 years | 24 | 16% |
| 20 to 25 years | 13 | 9% |
| 25 years or more | 26 | 17% |
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 Ventnor City, 21% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 57 | 38% |
| Tier 2 | 3 | 2% |
| Tier 3 | 59 | 39% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 31 | 21% |
Other public employers in Ventnor City
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Ventnor City. 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 |
|---|---|
| VENTNOR CITY (this page) | 150 |
| VENTNOR CITY BD OF ED | 108 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Ventnor 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.
Your title, not your assignment, defines what you are supposed to be doing. If the duties you actually perform drift outside the specification for the title you hold, that is a classification question rather than a management preference, and an employee can ask for the position to be reviewed and reclassified. It is one of the quieter protections in the system and one of the least used.
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 Ventnor City
Ventnor 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 Ventnor City appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Ventnor 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 Atlantic County
Atlantic County holds 16 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 8 municipalities, 3 municipal departments, 2 public libraries, 2 municipal utilities authorities, and 1 county government.
8 of the county's 23 municipalities are among them.
Atlantic 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: Margate Public Safety, Margate Public Works, Margate Revenue and Finance, Pleasantville, Somers Point, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Library, Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority. See all 16 in Atlantic County.
Common questions about Ventnor City
Is Ventnor City a civil service employer?
Yes. Ventnor 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.
Does the Civil Service Commission decide who gets hired?
No. The Commission runs the examination, ranks the candidates and certifies the list. The employer is the appointing authority: it decides whether to fill the position at all and which of the reachable candidates to appoint. That division is why a high score improves your odds without guaranteeing anything.
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 Ventnor City employees are in a State pension system?
150 active memberships are reported through Ventnor City, split across 83 in PFRS and 67 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 Ventnor City?
$80,516, with the middle half of members between $60,300 and $119,860. 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 Ventnor City compare with the rest of Atlantic County?
Its median pensionable salary of $80,516 sits at the 82nd percentile among the 11 civil service jurisdictions in Atlantic County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $64,764. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Ventnor City?
The median enrolled member has 12.8 years of credited service, and 26% 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.