Assistant Business Manager Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
In New Jersey, Assistant Business Manager 1 is filled through the competitive process: candidates take a civil service exam and are hired off a ranked list, not picked at will.
Qualifying takes a bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience. The FY2027 range lands between $95,955 and $141,386, and state payroll currently lists 4 people in the title, most of them at Human Services.
Assistant Business Manager is a single-title classification family: Assistant Business Manager 1 is the only position in it. Assistant Business Manager commonly advances into Business Manager.
Positions in This Family
- ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER 1 (50665) $95,955 - $141,386/year
What the Assistant Business Manager family covers
Assistant Business Manager is a single-title family in the New Jersey civil service classification plan: one title code, with no numbered rungs above or below it. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Chief, director, manager and supervisor are not single jobs in New Jersey civil service. They are ranks applied across the whole of government, so a single family can hold hundreds of codes covering entirely unrelated bureaus. That structure matters for anyone reading the pay figures: two titles in the same family may share nothing except a level of responsibility. Most of these positions are managerial or unclassified, which means salaries are set individually rather than by stepping through a published ladder, and the managerial schedule itself has been frozen since 2007.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Assistant Business Manager 1: Assists a Business Manager 1, in the planning, supervision, and coordination of those functions and departments constituting the business management area of…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 1 title we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 1 of them. Experience requirements sit at 5 years wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 4 people working under 1 of this family's title, spread across 2 agencies. Human Services alone accounts for about 75% of them.
- Human Services — 3 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 1 employee
Median actual pay for Assistant Business Manager 1 is $119,047, which is what people in the title are really paid rather than the published band.
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
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Business Manager (local jurisdiction)
- Business Manager 1 ($75,474 to $105,655, state jurisdiction) — in the Business Manager family
- Business Manager Ufd (local jurisdiction)
- Business Manager Corrections ($71,879 to $100,638, state jurisdiction)
- Business Manager Corrections ($110,276 to $162,870, state jurisdiction)
- Assistant Business Manager Institutions ($83,582 to $122,832, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Assistant Business Manager jobs
How many Assistant Business Manager titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Assistant Business Manager family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Assistant Business Manager earn in New Jersey?
Assistant Business Manager 1 is published at $95,955 to $141,386. Salary depends on the salary range assigned to the title and the step the employee has reached.
Do you need to take an exam to become an Assistant Business Manager?
Yes for most of the family. 1 of the 1 title 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 Business Manager need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 1 of the 1 title. Stated experience ranges from 5 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Assistant Business Manager staff?
State payroll records show 4 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Human Services the largest at 3. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.