Assistant Superintendent Family
Career series with 3 positions across 2 levels
Assistant Superintendent is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 3 titles spanning 2 levels.
Entry is typically through Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections, advancing through the ladder toward Assistant Superintendent 1 Corrections. Pay across the family spans $65,195 to $148,187, around the 78th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 23 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Corrections.
Assistant Superintendent supervises titles such as Traffic Signal Superintendent and Superintendent Parks and Forestry.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT 3 CORRECTIONS (60231) $65,195 - $91,272/year
- ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT 1 CORRECTIONS (60233) $71,879 - $100,638/year
- ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT 3 CORRECTIONS (61667) $100,498 - $148,187/year
What the Assistant Superintendent family covers
New Jersey classifies Assistant Superintendent as a 2-level series holding 3 separate 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.
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.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Assistant Superintendent family stacks up as follows. 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 Superintendent 3 Corrections — $100,498 to $148,187 (a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Assistant Superintendent 1 Corrections — $71,879 to $100,638 (frozen schedule) (a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections — $65,195 to $91,272 (frozen schedule) (a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections to the top of Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections is $82,992, an increase of about 127% over the entry minimum. 2 of the 3 titles in the family sit on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.
What each title does
The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.
- Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections: Under administrative direction of the Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, in the Division of Operations, Department of Corrections, within…
- Assistant Superintendent 1 Corrections: Under administrative direction of the Associate Administrator, Prison Complex, in the Division of Operations…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 3 of them. Experience requirements sit at 4 years wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 3 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 23 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 2 agencies. Corrections alone accounts for about 87% of them.
- Corrections — 20 employees
- Juvenile Justice Commission — 3 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $110,923 for Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections up to $148,638 for Assistant Superintendent 1 Corrections. 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 (M and M-Represented), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. Bargaining is handled by IBEW. 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.
- Tree Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
- Line Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
- Water Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
- Building Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
- Hospital Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
- County Park Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Assistant Superintendent jobs
How many Assistant Superintendent titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Assistant Superintendent 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 Assistant Superintendent earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $65,195 at the bottom of Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections to $148,187 at the top of Assistant Superintendent 3 Corrections. 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 Superintendent?
Mostly no. 3 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 qualifications does an Assistant Superintendent need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 3 of the 3 titles. Stated experience ranges from 4 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Assistant Superintendent staff?
State payroll records show 23 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Corrections the largest at 20. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Assistant Superintendent 1 higher or lower than Assistant Superintendent 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.