Assistant Biologist Family
Career series with 5 positions
Assistant Biologist is an umbrella title in New Jersey civil service, covering 5 distinct specializations across 5 title codes.
Specializations include Animal Health, Education, and Fisheries, among others. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $88,743, around the 21st percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 70 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.
Assistant Biologist is closely related to Principal Biologist and Senior Biologist.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- ASSISTANT BIOLOGIST, FISHERIES (01752C) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- ASSISTANT BIOLOGIST, ANIMAL HEALTH (01752D) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- ASSISTANT BIOLOGIST, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (01752H) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- ASSISTANT BIOLOGIST, MOSQUITO CONTROL (01752L) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- ASSISTANT BIOLOGIST, EDUCATION (01752N) $60,876 - $88,743/year
What the Assistant Biologist family covers
Assistant Biologist is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 5 specializations, which together account for 5 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.
The state runs working laboratories rather than research institutes, so scientific titles are tied to a statutory job: testing water and air, screening newborns, analysing evidence, monitoring pesticides, mapping geology. Degrees in a named field do the qualifying, and the exam is often an evaluation of education and experience rather than a written test. Because each laboratory is small, these families tend to be short ladders inside one agency instead of broad classifications spread across government.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Assistant Biologist rungs look like this.
- Assistant Biologist, Education — $60,876 to $88,743 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Assistant Biologist, Mosquito Control — $60,876 to $88,743 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Assistant Biologist, Wildlife Management — $60,876 to $88,743 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Assistant Biologist, Animal Health — $60,876 to $88,743 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Assistant Biologist, Fisheries — $60,876 to $88,743 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Assistant Biologist, Fisheries to the top of Assistant Biologist, Education is $27,867, an increase of about 46% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.
- Assistant Biologist, Fisheries: Under the close supervision of a Principal Biologist, Fisheries or other supervisory official in the Department of Environmental Protection, assists and…
- Assistant Biologist, Animal Health: Under close supervision of a Research Scientist 1 (Microbiology) or other supervisory official in the Division Animal Health, New Jersey Department of…
- Assistant Biologist, Wildlife Management: Under the close supervision of a Principal Biologist, Wildlife Management, or other supervisory official in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in…
- Assistant Biologist, Mosquito Control: Under the close supervision of a Principal Biologist, Mosquito Control or other higher level supervisory official in the Department of Environmental…
- Assistant Biologist, Education: Under the close supervision of a Principal Biologist, Education or other supervisory official in the Department of Environmental Protection, assists and…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 5 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 5 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
1 of the 5 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 5 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 70 people working under 5 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Environmental Protection — 70 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $61,510 for Assistant Biologist, Fisheries up to $61,510 for Assistant Biologist, Education. 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
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Assistant Biologist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Biologist Trainee ($58,222 to $60,876, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Senior Biologist, Fisheries ($69,668 to $101,951, state jurisdiction) — in the Senior Biologist family
- Principal Biologist, Fisheries ($79,844 to $117,228, state jurisdiction) — in the Principal Biologist family
- Biologist Mosquito Extermination (local jurisdiction)
- Supervising Biologist, Education ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
- Supervising Biologist, Fisheries ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Assistant Biologist jobs
How many Assistant Biologist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Assistant Biologist family holds 5 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Assistant Biologist earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Assistant Biologist, Fisheries to $88,743 at the top of Assistant Biologist, Education. 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 Assistant Biologist?
Yes for most of the family. 5 of the 5 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 Assistant Biologist need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 5 of the 5 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 year depending on the rung. 1 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Assistant Biologist staff?
State payroll records show 70 people in this family across 1 agency, with Environmental Protection the largest at 70. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.