Armorer Family
Career series with 5 positions across 4 levels
New Jersey classifies Armorer as a 4-level family, 5 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Armorer 4, advancing through the ladder toward Armorer 1. Pay across the family spans $40,322 to $84,763, around the 19th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 14 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Military and Veterans Affairs.
Positions in This Family
What the Armorer family covers
Armorer covers 5 title codes arranged into 4 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 safety classifications are built around rank rather than around grade, so advancement means competing for a different title instead of climbing steps in the current one. Entry requirements are unusually hard-edged: age limits, residency rules, medical and psychological screening, and an academy that must be completed after appointment rather than before it. Pay comes from separate schedules negotiated by separate unions, and those schedules often carry a contract-negotiated jump near the top of the ladder that the civilian tables do not have.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Armorer 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.
- Armorer 1 — $58,222 to $84,763 (3 years of experience)
- Armorer 2 — $50,990 to $73,902 (2 years of experience)
- Armorer 3 — $43,934 to $63,341 (1 year of experience)
- Armorer 4 — $40,322 to $57,949 (0.5 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Armorer 4 to the top of Armorer 1 is $44,442, an increase of about 110% 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.
- Armorer 4: Under supervision of an Armorer 2 or Armorer 3 or other designated supervisor at a National Guard Facility or as directed…
- Armorer 3: Under supervision of an Armorer 1 at a National Guard facility, does janitorial, maintenance, and repair work or assists Department of…
- Armorer 2: Under supervision of a Station Commander or Regional Supervisor of Facilities (Special Staff Officer 1) at a National Guard facility…
- Armorer 1: Under supervision of a Station Commander at a major National Guard facility or as directed by the Regional Supervisor of Facilities…
Requirements across the family
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Stated experience runs from 0.5 years at the lowest rung to 3 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
Every title here carries a license or certification requirement, so the credential matters more than the exam score. On how the jobs are filled: 4 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.
Who actually employs these titles
14 people appear on the state payroll under 2 of these titles, at 1 agency. Military and Veterans Affairs alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Military and Veterans Affairs — 14 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $55,989 for Armorer 4 up to $71,639 for Armorer 2. 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 2 salary schedules (A-P-R-S and C-I-O), 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 IFPTE.
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.
Common questions about Armorer jobs
How many separate Armorer classifications does New Jersey have?
The Armorer family holds 5 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is an Armorer paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $40,322 at the bottom of Armorer 4 to $84,763 at the top of Armorer 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 Armorer?
Mostly no. 4 of the 5 titles here are unclassified, so appointment is at the employer's discretion rather than from an eligible list, and salary is set individually rather than by a published step. That also makes cross-agency salary comparison less reliable for these titles.
What are the requirements to become an Armorer?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 0.5 to 3 years is named where a requirement is stated. 5 of the titles require a license or certification.
Which agencies employ Armorer staff?
State payroll records show 14 people in this family across 1 agency, with Military and Veterans Affairs the largest at 14. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Armorer 1 higher or lower than Armorer 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.