Woodland Park Borough
Municipality · Passaic County
77 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Woodland Park Borough, reporting a median pensionable salary of $99,442.
Woodland Park Borough, a municipality in Passaic County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Passaic County, 20 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 Woodland Park Borough
77 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Woodland Park 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 | 49 | 64% |
| PFRS | Police and Firemen's Retirement System | 28 | 36% |
Within PFRS, the fund records 28 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 Woodland Park Borough actually appoints.
2 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 Woodland Park Borough.
Pensionable salary at Woodland Park Borough
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Woodland Park Borough reports a pensionable salary above $99,442 and half below, across 77 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $39,751 |
| 25th percentile | $54,323 |
| Median | $99,442 |
| 75th percentile | $129,905 |
| 90th percentile | $167,890 |
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 100th percentile, above the county's midpoint of $74,681. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 96th 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 Woodland Park Borough
The median enrolled member at Woodland Park Borough has 13.9 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 7.1 and 21.3 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 | 11 | 14% |
| 5 to 10 years | 17 | 22% |
| 10 to 15 years | 12 | 16% |
| 15 to 20 years | 15 | 19% |
| 20 to 25 years | 6 | 8% |
| 25 years or more | 16 | 21% |
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 Woodland Park Borough, 36% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 31 | 40% |
| Tier 2 | 2 | 3% |
| Tier 3 | 15 | 19% |
| Tier 4 | 1 | 1% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 28 | 36% |
Other public employers in Woodland Park Borough
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Woodland Park Borough. 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 |
|---|---|
| WOODLAND PARK BD OF ED | 158 |
| WOODLAND PARK BOROUGH (this page) | 77 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Woodland Park 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.
Permanent employees carry layoff rights. In a layoff, rights are determined by permanent status and seniority within the affected unit, displacement into another title can be available, and laid-off employees go onto a special reemployment list that takes priority when the title is filled again. None of that applies to provisional or temporary service.
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.
Civil service employers in Woodland Park Borough
Woodland 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.
One other Woodland Park Borough body is listed separately: Woodland Park Library, a public library. It is a distinct employer with its own hiring, so a job there is not a job with the borough, and permanent status earned at one does not carry to the other.
- Woodland Park 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 Passaic County
Passaic County holds 20 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 8 municipalities, 7 public libraries, 3 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of social services, and 1 county government.
8 of the county's 16 municipalities are among them.
Passaic 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: Ringwood Borough, Wanaque Borough, Wanaque Library, West Milford Library, West Milford Municipal Utilities Authority, West Milford Township, Woodland Park Library, Clifton. See all 20 in Passaic County.
Common questions about Woodland Park Borough
Is Woodland Park Borough a civil service employer?
Yes. Woodland Park 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.
Does civil service status at Woodland Park Borough cover the rest of Woodland Park Borough?
No. Woodland Park Borough 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.
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.
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 Woodland Park Borough employees are in a State pension system?
77 active memberships are reported through Woodland Park Borough, split across 49 in PERS and 28 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 Woodland Park Borough?
$99,442, with the middle half of members between $54,323 and $129,905. 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 Woodland Park Borough compare with the rest of Passaic County?
Its median pensionable salary of $99,442 sits at the 100th percentile among the 11 civil service jurisdictions in Passaic County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $74,681. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Woodland Park Borough?
The median enrolled member has 13.9 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.