Affirmative Action Officer Family
Career series with 3 positions across 3 levels
New Jersey classifies Affirmative Action Officer as a 3-level family, 3 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Affirmative Action Officer 3, advancing through the ladder toward Affirmative Action Officer 1. Pay across the family spans $83,582 to $155,359, around the 86th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 14 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Children and Families.
Affirmative Action Officer reports to supervising titles such as Principal Staff Officer and Supervising Classification Officer.
Positions in This Family
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICER 3 (65864) $83,582 - $122,832/year
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICER 1 (65866) $105,267 - $155,359/year
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICER 2 (65867) $91,628 - $134,900/year
What the Affirmative Action Officer family covers
New Jersey classifies Affirmative Action Officer as a 3-level series holding 3 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Personnel titles administer the system this site documents: they run the exams, maintain the eligible lists, classify positions and handle the layoff and grievance machinery. That gives them an unusual footprint, since every department needs the function and the Civil Service Commission sets the rules for all of them. Training, affirmative action and equal employment titles sit in the same neighborhood. Local jurisdictions that have adopted Title 11A hire their own versions, which is why several of these families carry local as well as state codes.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Affirmative Action Officer 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.
- Affirmative Action Officer 1 — $105,267 to $155,359 (a master's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Affirmative Action Officer 2 — $91,628 to $134,900 (a master's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Affirmative Action Officer 3 — $83,582 to $122,832 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Affirmative Action Officer 3 to the top of Affirmative Action Officer 1 is $71,777, an increase of about 86% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.
- Affirmative Action Officer 3: Under direction of an Affirmative Action Officer 1 and/or the Chief Operations Officer in an institution, division, or enforcement agency of less than 1,000…
- Affirmative Action Officer 1: Under direction of the Commissioner or Chief Executive Officer in an executive department, college, or independent agency of 4000 or more regular employees…
- Affirmative Action Officer 2: Under direction of the Commissioner or Chief Executive Officer, in an executive department, college, or independent agency of less than 4,000 regular…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 3 of them. Stated experience runs from 2 years 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: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
14 people appear on the state payroll under 3 of these titles, at 4 agencies. Children and Families alone accounts for about 57% of them.
- Children and Families — 8 employees
- Human Services — 4 employees
- Board of the Public Utilities — 1 employee
- Transportation — 1 employee
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $107,301 for Affirmative Action Officer 3 up to $150,105 for Affirmative Action Officer 1. 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
Titles in this family are paid on the V-W-Y salary schedule. See every step in that schedule.
Where these jobs exist
Hiring for this family runs through state service. Departments, commissions and boards fill these titles from eligible lists built by the Civil Service Commission, so the route in is an announcement and a filing deadline rather than a posting you apply to directly. What state jurisdiction means, and a breakdown of who employs what.
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.
- Affirmative Action Specialist (local jurisdiction)
- Affirmative Action Specialist 3 ($60,876 to $88,743, state jurisdiction) — in the Affirmative Action Specialist family
- Affirmative Action Specialist Trainee ($55,691 to $58,222, state jurisdiction)
- Technical Assistant, Affirmative Action ($50,990 to $73,902, state jurisdiction)
- Affirmative Action Assistant Public Contracts ($69,668 to $101,951, state jurisdiction)
- Affirmative Action Investigator Public Contracts ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Affirmative Action Officer jobs
How many separate Affirmative Action Officer classifications does New Jersey have?
The Affirmative Action Officer family holds 3 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is an Affirmative Action Officer paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $83,582 at the bottom of Affirmative Action Officer 3 to $155,359 at the top of Affirmative Action Officer 1. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.
Is there a civil service test for Affirmative Action Officer?
Yes for most of the family. 3 of the 3 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What are the requirements to become an Affirmative Action Officer?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 3 of the 3 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 to 4 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Affirmative Action Officer staff?
State payroll records show 14 people in this family across 4 agencies, with Children and Families the largest at 8. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Affirmative Action Officer 1 higher or lower than Affirmative Action Officer 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.