Woodlynne Borough
Municipality · Camden County
6 people are enrolled in a State pension fund through Woodlynne Borough, reporting a median pensionable salary of $49,488.
As a municipality in Camden County, Woodlynne Borough falls under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system, which governs competitive hiring, classification, and promotion for its employees.
It is one of 30 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in Camden County.
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 Woodlynne Borough
6 people are enrolled in a State-administered pension fund through Woodlynne 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 | 6 | 100% |
Pensionable salary at Woodlynne Borough
Half of the pension-enrolled workforce at Woodlynne Borough reports a pensionable salary above $49,488 and half below, across 6 members with a reported figure.
| Point in the distribution | Pensionable salary |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $38,516 |
| 25th percentile | $43,248 |
| Median | $49,488 |
| 75th percentile | $61,309 |
| 90th percentile | $74,971 |
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 22 civil service jurisdictions in the same county with pension data, that median sits at the 9th percentile, below the county's midpoint of $68,886. Against the 194 bodies of the same kind statewide, it sits at the 3rd 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 Woodlynne Borough
The median enrolled member at Woodlynne Borough has 11.6 years of credited service, with the middle half falling between 3.8 and 20.3 years. 33% 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 | 2 | 33% |
| 5 to 10 years | 1 | 17% |
| 15 to 20 years | 1 | 17% |
| 20 to 25 years | 1 | 17% |
| 25 years or more | 1 | 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 Woodlynne Borough, 50% sit in the most recently hired cohort.
| Membership tier | Members | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (longest-serving cohort) | 2 | 33% |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 17% |
| Tier 5 (most recently hired cohort) | 3 | 50% |
Other public employers in Woodlynne Borough
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Woodlynne 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 |
|---|---|
| WOODLYNNE BD OF ED | 78 |
| WOODLYNNE BOROUGH (this page) | 6 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Woodlynne 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.
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 Woodlynne Borough
Woodlynne 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 Woodlynne Borough appears alongside it. No library board, fire district, utilities authority or housing authority here holds separate status, which means every local job in Woodlynne 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 Camden County
Camden County holds 30 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 15 municipalities, 4 public libraries, 3 fire districts, 2 municipal utilities authorities, 1 board of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 housing authority, 1 mosquito extermination commission, and 1 redevelopment agency.
15 of the county's 36 municipalities are among them.
Camden 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: Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, Clementon Borough, Gloucester City, Gloucester City Library, Gloucester Township, Gloucester Township Fire Districts (6), Gloucester Township Municipal Utilities Authority, Haddon Township Housing Authority. See all 30 in Camden County.
Common questions about Woodlynne Borough
Is Woodlynne Borough a civil service employer?
Yes. Woodlynne 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.
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.
Do veterans get a preference on these lists?
Yes, and in New Jersey it is unusually strong. On an open competitive list, disabled veterans who pass are ranked ahead of all other candidates, and other veterans who pass are ranked ahead of non-veterans, regardless of score. Preference has to be claimed and verified in advance, and it does not carry over to promotional examinations.
How many Woodlynne Borough employees are in a State pension system?
6 active memberships are reported through Woodlynne Borough, split across 6 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 Woodlynne Borough?
$49,488, with the middle half of members between $43,248 and $61,309. 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 Woodlynne Borough compare with the rest of Camden County?
Its median pensionable salary of $49,488 sits at the 9th percentile among the 22 civil service jurisdictions in Camden County with pension data, where the midpoint jurisdiction reports $68,886. Local pay is set by ordinance rather than a State schedule, so spreads inside one county are wide.
How long do people stay at Woodlynne Borough?
The median enrolled member has 11.6 years of credited service, and 33% 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.