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Affirmative Action Specialist Family

Career series with 6 positions across 3 levels

Affirmative Action Specialist groups 6 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.

Entry is typically through Affirmative Action Specialist 3, advancing through the ladder toward Affirmative Action Specialist 1. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $117,228, around the 43rd percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 30 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Transportation.

Affirmative Action Specialist commonly advances into Program Specialist and Hazardous Site Mitigation Specialist.

6
Positions
3
Career Levels
1
Specializations
Salary Range: $60,876 - $117,228/year

Specializations

Bilingual In Spanish And English

Positions in This Family

What the Affirmative Action Specialist family covers

Affirmative Action Specialist covers 6 title codes arranged into 3 levels of responsibility. 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

The Affirmative Action Specialist rungs, listed from the best paid down. 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.

The distance from the bottom of Affirmative Action Specialist 3 to the top of Affirmative Action Specialist 1 Bilingual in Spanish and English is $56,352, an increase of about 93% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.

Requirements across the family

Across the 6 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 6 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 3 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 6 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 30 people working under 6 of this family's titles, spread across 7 agencies. Transportation alone accounts for about 27% of them.

  • Transportation — 8 employees
  • Labor — 8 employees
  • Treasury — 4 employees
  • Motor Vehicle Commission — 4 employees
  • Children and Families — 2 employees
  • Civil Service Commission — 2 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 7 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $58,818 for Affirmative Action Specialist 3 up to $84,368 for Affirmative Action Specialist 1 Bilingual in Spanish and English. 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 A-P-R-S salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by CWA. Union contracts and rights are collected here.

Where these jobs exist

These are state titles, hired by New Jersey departments, commissions and boards through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process rather than by an ordinary job posting. How state hiring works, and which agencies employ what.

Related titles elsewhere in the plan

Other classifications built on the same terms as Affirmative Action Specialist. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.

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 Affirmative Action Specialist.

Common questions about Affirmative Action Specialist jobs

How many Affirmative Action Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Affirmative Action Specialist family holds 6 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does an Affirmative Action Specialist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Affirmative Action Specialist 3 to $117,228 at the top of Affirmative Action Specialist 1 Bilingual in Spanish and English. 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 Affirmative Action Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 6 of the 6 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 Affirmative Action Specialist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 6 of the 6 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Affirmative Action Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 30 people in this family across 7 agencies, with Transportation the largest at 8. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Affirmative Action Specialist 1 higher or lower than Affirmative Action Specialist 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.