Assistant Deputy Public Advocate Family
Career series with 3 positions across 3 levels
In New Jersey civil service, Assistant Deputy Public Advocate names a 3-level progression covering 3 distinct titles.
Entry is typically through Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3, advancing through the ladder toward Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1. Pay across the family spans $79,844 to $170,731, around the 93rd percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 26 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Office of the Public Defender.
Assistant Deputy Public Advocate supervises titles such as Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics/Keyboarding Clerk and Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk.
Positions in This Family
- ASSISTANT DEPUTY PUBLIC ADVOCATE 3 (30723) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- ASSISTANT DEPUTY PUBLIC ADVOCATE 2 (30725) $100,498 - $148,187/year
- ASSISTANT DEPUTY PUBLIC ADVOCATE 1 (30726) $115,536 - $170,731/year
What the Assistant Deputy Public Advocate family covers
Assistant Deputy Public Advocate covers 3 title codes arranged into 3 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.
Legal titles in New Jersey split into two groups that look similar and are not. Deputy attorneys general, public defenders and public advocates are unclassified: they are appointed, not examined, and their pay is negotiated inside a schedule rather than earned by stepping through it. Hearing officers, appeals examiners and paralegal support titles are ordinary classified positions filled the usual way. Both groups cluster in Law and Public Safety, the Office of Administrative Law and the agencies that run their own hearings, so the work is closer to administrative adjudication than to courtroom practice.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 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.
- Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1 — $115,536 to $170,731 (3 years of experience)
- Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 2 — $100,498 to $148,187 (2 years of experience)
- Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3 — $79,844 to $117,228 (1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3 to the top of Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1 is $90,887, an increase of about 114% 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.
- Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3: Under the jurisdiction of a Division Director in the Department of the Public Advocate, assists in the performance of all…
- Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 2: Under the jurisdiction of a Division Director in the Department of the Public Advocate, assists in the performance of all…
- Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1: Under the direction of a Division Director or other supervisory officer in the Department of the Public Advocate…
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 1 year 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: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination and 2 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.
Who actually employs these titles
26 people appear on the state payroll under 3 of these titles, at 2 agencies. Office of the Public Defender alone accounts for about 69% of them.
- Office of the Public Defender — 18 employees
- Division of Rate Counsel — 8 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $95,204 for Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3 up to $162,291 for Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1. 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
Other classifications built on the same terms as Assistant Deputy Public Advocate. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Deputy Public Advocate 2 ($83,210 to $116,477, state jurisdiction) — in the Deputy Public Advocate family
- Assistant Public Advocate ($117,078 to $163,912, state jurisdiction)
- Advocate Victim Witness Program (local jurisdiction)
- Inmate Advocate Penal Institution (local jurisdiction)
- Advocate Trainee, Victim-Witness Program (local jurisdiction)
- Advocate Trainee, Victim-Witness Program (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Assistant Deputy Public Advocate jobs
How many separate Assistant Deputy Public Advocate classifications does New Jersey have?
The Assistant Deputy Public Advocate family holds 3 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is an Assistant Deputy Public Advocate paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $79,844 at the bottom of Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3 to $170,731 at the top of Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 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 Assistant Deputy Public Advocate?
Mostly no. 2 of the 3 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 Assistant Deputy Public Advocate?
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 1 to 3 years is named where a requirement is stated. 3 of the titles require a license or certification.
Which agencies employ Assistant Deputy Public Advocate staff?
State payroll records show 26 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Office of the Public Defender the largest at 18. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1 higher or lower than Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 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.