Archivist Family
Career series with 3 positions across 2 levels
Archivist groups 3 related titles into a 2-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Archivist 2, advancing through the ladder toward Archivist 1 and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $66,592 to $128,719, around the 54th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 9 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at State.
Positions in This Family
- ARCHIVIST 2 (74223) $66,592 - $97,354/year
- ARCHIVIST 1 (74224) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- SUPERVISING ARCHIVIST (74225) $87,507 - $128,719/year
What the Archivist family covers
Archivist covers 3 title codes arranged into 2 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.
Public school teachers in New Jersey are not civil service, so the education titles in this system are the ones that sit outside a classroom: instructors in correctional and developmental facilities, curriculum and program development staff, and the education specialists at the Department of Education. Library titles are different again. County and municipal libraries are among the local employers that adopted civil service in their own right, which is why librarian and library assistant series carry local codes and appear in the local jurisdiction directory.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Archivist 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.
- Supervising Archivist — $87,507 to $128,719 (a master's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Archivist 1 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Archivist 2 — $66,592 to $97,354 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Archivist 2 to the top of Supervising Archivist is $62,127, 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.
- Archivist 2: Under direction of a supervisory official in the Department of State or in the Division of State Police, Department of Law and Public Safety, performs technical tasks related…
- Archivist 1: Under direction of a supervisory official, Division of Archives, Department of State, performs supervisory, administrative, and technical tasks related to one of the several…
- Supervising Archivist: Under direction in the Division of Archives and Records Management, Department of State, is responsible for managing one or more functional units of the New Jersey…
Requirements across the family
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 3 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: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 9 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 2 agencies. State alone accounts for about 89% of them.
- State — 8 employees
- Law and Public Safety — 1 employee
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $82,173 for Archivist 2 up to $124,366 for Supervising Archivist. 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.
Common questions about Archivist jobs
How many Archivist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Archivist family holds 3 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Archivist earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $66,592 at the bottom of Archivist 2 to $128,719 at the top of Supervising Archivist. 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 Archivist?
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 qualifications does an Archivist need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 3 of the 3 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 Archivist staff?
State payroll records show 9 people in this family across 2 agencies, with State the largest at 8. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Archivist 1 higher or lower than Archivist 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.