Woodbridge Township
Municipality · Middlesex County
913 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Woodbridge Township, reporting a median pensionable salary of $75,739.
Woodbridge Township is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a municipality in Middlesex County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Middlesex County has 19 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.
Woodbridge Township Police Department — discipline and transparency records via PoliceTransparencyNJ
See all 19 civil service jurisdictions in Middlesex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Who is on the pension rolls at Woodbridge Township
913 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Woodbridge Township. 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 | 689 | 75% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 224 | 25% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 224 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 Woodbridge Township actually appoints.
9 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 Woodbridge Township.
Pensionable salary at Woodbridge Township
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Woodbridge Township reports a pensionable salary above $75,739 and half below, across 913 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $38,827 |
| 25th percentile | $49,538 |
| Median | $75,739 |
| 75th percentile | $95,532 |
| 90th percentile | $147,434 |
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 55th percentile, level with the county's midpoint of $75,739. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 58th 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 Woodbridge Township
The median enrolled member at Woodbridge Township has 9.7 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 4.3 and 19.8 years. 25% 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 | 266 | 29% |
| 5 to 10 years | 208 | 23% |
| 10 to 15 years | 102 | 11% |
| 15 to 20 years | 113 | 12% |
| 20 to 25 years | 98 | 11% |
| 25 years or more | 126 | 14% |
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 Woodbridge Township, 49% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 282 | 31% |
| Tier 2 | 25 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 143 | 16% |
| Tier 4 | 19 | 2% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 444 | 49% |
Other public employers in Woodbridge Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Woodbridge Township. 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 |
|---|---|
| WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP BD OF ED | 1,997 |
| WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP (this page) | 913 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DISTRICT 1 | 51 |
| WOODBRIDGE HOUSING AUTHORITY | 20 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DISTRICT 7 | 19 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DISTRICT 2 | 13 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DIST 4 | 8 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DISTRICT 9 | 4 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DIST 5 | 4 |
| WOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE DISTRICT 8 | 2 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Woodbridge Township
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 Woodbridge Township
Woodbridge Township appears in the Commission's listing in its own right, so the township government is the appointing authority for its own classified staff.
Two other Woodbridge Township bodies hold civil service status separately from the township government, listed below. Each runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists, so Woodbridge Township is really three employers rather than one.
- Woodbridge Fire Districts (9), fire district
- Woodbridge Library, public library
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: Woodbridge Library, Carteret Board of Health, Carteret Borough, Carteret Library, Middlesex County Board of Social Services, Middlesex County Mosquito Extermination, Milltown Borough, New Brunswick. See all 19 in Middlesex County.
Common questions about Woodbridge Township
Is Woodbridge Township a civil service employer?
Yes. Woodbridge Township 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 civil service status at Woodbridge Township cover the rest of Woodbridge Township?
No. Woodbridge Township has more than one employer in the listing, and each holds its own status, runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists. Seniority and permanent status earned at one do not transfer automatically to another, even inside the same town.
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 long does it take to get hired through this process?
Longer than an ordinary job application, and the timing is not in the hands of the employer. An announcement has to close, the examination has to be held and scored, the eligible list has to be promulgated, and only then can the employer request a certification. Several months between filing and an appointment is normal rather than a sign that something has gone wrong.
How many Woodbridge Township employees are in a State pension system?
913 active memberships are reported through Woodbridge Township, split across 689 in PERS and 224 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 Woodbridge Township?
$75,739, with the middle half of members between $49,538 and $95,532. 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 Woodbridge Township compare with the rest of Middlesex County?
Its median pensionable salary of $75,739 sits at the 55th 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 Woodbridge Township?
The median enrolled member has 9.7 years of credited service, and 25% 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.