Account Clerk/clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
New Jersey classifies Account Clerk/Clerk 2 as non-competitive, which skips the exam-and-list step and turns on whether you meet the minimum requirements.
It asks for 1 year of relevant experience.
Account Clerk/Clerk is a single-title classification family: Account Clerk/Clerk 2 is the only position in it. Account Clerk/Clerk is closely related to Intermittent Audit Account Clerk.
Positions in This Family
- ACCOUNT CLERK/CLERK 2 (06164)
What the Account Clerk/Clerk family covers
Account Clerk/Clerk is a single-title family in the New Jersey civil service classification plan: one title code, with no numbered rungs above or below it. Every title in it is a local title, used by the counties, municipalities, authorities and boards that have adopted civil service under Title 11A rather than by state departments.
Money titles are among the most portable in New Jersey government. The accounting, audit, budget and revenue series run in near-identical form at the state, in county finance offices and inside local civil service jurisdictions, which is why the same family often appears with both state and local codes. Requirements usually lean on a degree with accounting coursework rather than a license, and the CPA sits above the entry bar rather than at it. Promotion tends to follow the ledger: staff work first, then review of other people's work, then responsibility for a whole fund or program.
Two jobs in one title
Account Clerk/Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Account Clerk and Clerk at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. Small New Jersey employers use these when one function will not fill a whole position, so the Commission classifies the combined job rather than forcing it into one box or the other.
Separately, Clerk is its own family of 17 title codes across 4 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Account Clerk/Clerk 2: Under direction performs a variety of routine, repetitive, noncomplex clerical tasks which involve computing, classifying, verifying, and recording…
Getting in: the stated requirements
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
These are local titles, so the hiring employers are New Jersey's counties, municipalities, authorities, library boards, school districts and fire districts that have adopted civil service under Title 11A. Not every New Jersey employer has. A town that never adopted the system hires however it chooses and never posts against these codes at all, which is why checking the employer before checking the title saves time. Look up whether an employer is a civil service jurisdiction, or read how local civil service differs from state.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Account Clerk (local jurisdiction)
- Audit Account Clerk ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction)
- Account Clerk Typing (local jurisdiction)
- Account Clerk Typing (local jurisdiction)
- Account Clerk/Cashier (local jurisdiction)
- Principal Account Clerk (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Account Clerk/Clerk jobs
How many Account Clerk/Clerk titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Account Clerk/Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Account Clerk/Clerk earn in New Jersey?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Do you need to take an exam to become an Account Clerk/Clerk?
Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 1. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.
What qualifications does an Account Clerk/Clerk need?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 1 year is named where a requirement is stated.