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Analyst Family

Career series with 6 positions across 2 levels

In New Jersey civil service, Analyst names a 2-level progression covering 6 distinct titles.

Entry is typically through Analyst 1 Health Care Facilities, advancing through the ladder toward Analyst 2 Health Care Facilities. Pay across the family spans $79,844 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 11 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Human Services.

Analyst commonly advances into Research Analyst and Telecommunications Systems Analyst.

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Positions
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Career Levels
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Specializations
Salary Range: $79,844 - $141,386/year

Specializations

Health Care Facilities Health Care Facilities Mental Health Services Research And Evaluation

Positions in This Family

What the Analyst family covers

New Jersey classifies Analyst as a 2-level series holding 6 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.

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 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.

The distance from the bottom of Analyst 1 Research and Evaluation to the top of Analyst 1 Health Care Facilities Mental Health Services is $61,543, an increase of about 77% 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.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 6 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 6 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: 6 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

11 people appear on the state payroll under 5 of these titles, at 2 agencies. Human Services alone accounts for about 91% of them.

  • Human Services — 10 employees
  • Banking and Insurance — 1 employee

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $103,509 for Analyst 2 Health Care Facilities up to $136,605 for Analyst 1 Health Care Facilities Mental Health Services. 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

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.

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 Analyst.

Common questions about Analyst jobs

How many separate Analyst classifications does New Jersey have?

The Analyst family holds 6 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is an Analyst paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $79,844 at the bottom of Analyst 1 Research and Evaluation to $141,386 at the top of Analyst 1 Health Care Facilities Mental Health Services. 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 Analyst?

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 are the requirements to become an Analyst?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 6 of the 6 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 Analyst staff?

State payroll records show 11 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Human Services the largest at 10. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Analyst 1 higher or lower than 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.