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Administrative Analyst Family

Career series with 45 positions across 4 levels

Administrative Analyst is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 45 titles spanning 4 levels.

Entry is typically through Administrative Analyst 1, advancing through the ladder toward Administrative Analyst 3 and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $170,731, around the 92nd percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 10,728 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Law and Public Safety.

Administrative Analyst reports to supervising titles such as Administrative Assistant and Administrative Supervisor.

45
Positions
4
Career Levels
7
Specializations
Salary Range: $60,876 - $170,731/year

Specializations

Accounting Disaster Recovery Fiscal Manage:ment Fiscal Management Information Systems Management Auditor Procurement

Positions in This Family

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What the Administrative Analyst family covers

New Jersey classifies Administrative Analyst as a 4-level series holding 45 separate title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 42 state and 3 local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

Analyst and planner titles are where New Jersey puts the work of deciding rather than delivering: land use, capital programming, rate setting, program evaluation and policy research. Many exist at the local level because municipal and county planning boards were early adopters of civil service, so the family may hold only local codes even when the same work happens at the state under a different name. The qualification pattern is consistent, a bachelor's degree at entry with experience substituting upward, and the ladders are usually clean numbered progressions.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Administrative Analyst family stacks up as follows. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.

Showing the 12 best paid of 41 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Administrative Analyst 1 to the top of Supervising Administrative Analyst is $109,854, an increase of about 180% over the entry minimum. 2 of the 45 titles in the family sit on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.

What each title does

The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.

  • Senior Administrative Analyst: Under direction, performs the more responsible and complex work involved in analyzing and evaluating administrative procedures, practices, and…
  • Supervising Administrative Analyst: Under direction of a supervisory official, directs the review, analysis, and appraisal of administrative procedures and policies, and organizational…
  • Administrative Analyst 1: Under close supervision of an Administrative Analyst 4 or other supervisor in a state department, institution, or agency, assists as part of a team or task force…
  • Administrative Analyst 4 Management Auditor: The Civil Service Commission lists this title code but publishes no job specification for it. The classification shown here comes from the…
  • Administrative Analyst 1 Information Systems: Under close supervision of an Administrative Analyst 4, Information Systems or other supervisory officer in a state department or agency…
  • Administrative Analyst 1 Fiscal Management: Under close supervision of an Administrative Analyst 4, Fiscal Management, or other supervisor, assists in planning and conducting management…
  • Administrative Analyst 2: Under the limited supervision of an Administrative Analyst 4 or other supervisor in a state department, institution, or agency, assists in the review, analysis…
  • Administrative Analyst 2 Procurement: Under the limited supervision of an Administrative Analyst 4, Procurement or other supervisory official in a state department, institution, or…

Showing 8 of 34 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 45 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 33 of them, a bachelor's degree on 5 of them, and a doctoral degree on 4 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 4 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 41 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination and 4 are non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination. 12 titles in this family are covered by the compendium's special incentive program, which lets an appointing authority hire a qualified candidate above the bottom step instead of starting them at step one. See the full list of incentive titles.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 10,728 people working under 21 of this family's titles, spread across 34 agencies. Law and Public Safety alone accounts for about 14% of them.

  • Law and Public Safety — 1,487 employees
  • Treasury — 1,279 employees
  • Human Services — 1,129 employees
  • Transportation — 939 employees
  • Environmental Protection — 880 employees
  • Labor — 856 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 34 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $61,510 for Administrative Analyst 1 up to $147,200 for Supervising Administrative Analyst. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.

State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.

How the pay is set

The family is split across 3 salary schedules (A-P-R-S, M, and M-Represented), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. More than one union has members in this family: CWA and IBEW.

Where these jobs exist

Because the family mixes jurisdictions, the answer to "who hires this" depends on the specific code. State codes run through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process; local codes are hired by the counties, municipalities and authorities that adopted civil service under Title 11A. Check an employer's status before assuming a title is available where you live.

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.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Administrative Analyst.

Common questions about Administrative Analyst jobs

How many Administrative Analyst titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Administrative Analyst family holds 45 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does an Administrative Analyst earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Administrative Analyst 1 to $170,731 at the top of Supervising Administrative Analyst. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.

Do you need to take an exam to become an Administrative Analyst?

Yes for most of the family. 41 of the 45 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.

What qualifications does an Administrative Analyst need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 33 of the 45 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 4 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Administrative Analyst staff?

State payroll records show 10,728 people in this family across 34 agencies, with Law and Public Safety the largest at 1,487. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Administrative Analyst 1 higher or lower than Administrative Analyst 3?

In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.