Associate Hospital Administrator Family
Career series with 4 positions across 2 levels
Associate Hospital Administrator groups 4 related titles into a 2-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Associate Hospital Administrator 2, advancing through the ladder toward Associate Hospital Administrator 1. Pay across the family spans $71,879 to $187,691, around the 96th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 30 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.
Associate Hospital Administrator is closely related to Network Administrator.
Positions in This Family
- ASSOCIATE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR 2 (00462) $71,879 - $100,638/year
- ASSOCIATE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR 1 (00463) $83,210 - $116,477/year
- ASSOCIATE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR 1 (61053) $126,854 - $187,691/year
- ASSOCIATE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR 2 (61054) $110,276 - $162,870/year
What the Associate Hospital Administrator family covers
Associate Hospital Administrator covers 4 title codes arranged into 2 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.
Clinical titles staff the state psychiatric hospitals, the developmental centers, the veterans homes and the county health departments. Licensure usually does the gatekeeping that an exam does elsewhere, so the qualification text points at a board registration rather than a test score, and the competitive exam is often an evaluation of credentials. This is also the corner of the compendium where the state pays to fill vacancies faster: several health care titles can be hired above the bottom step under the special incentive program.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Associate Hospital Administrator 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.
- Associate Hospital Administrator 1 — $126,854 to $187,691 (a master's degree and 5 years of experience)
- Associate Hospital Administrator 2 — $110,276 to $162,870 (a master's degree and 5 years of experience)
- Associate Hospital Administrator 1 — $83,210 to $116,477 (frozen schedule) (a master's degree and 5 years of experience)
- Associate Hospital Administrator 2 — $71,879 to $100,638 (frozen schedule) (a master's degree and 5 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Associate Hospital Administrator 2 to the top of Associate Hospital Administrator 1 is $115,812, an increase of about 161% over the entry minimum. 2 of the 4 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
Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.
- Associate Hospital Administrator 2: Under the administrative direction of the Chief Executive Officer of a grade 2 psychiatric hospital (less than 200…
- Associate Hospital Administrator 1: Under the administrative direction of the Chief Executive Officer of a grade 1 psychiatric hospital (200 or more clients)…
Requirements across the family
Across the 4 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 4 of them. Experience requirements sit at 5 years wherever they are stated.
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
State payroll records show 30 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 2 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 73% of them.
- Health and Senior Services — 22 employees
- Military and Veterans Affairs — 8 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $147,200 for Associate Hospital Administrator 2 up to $163,710 for Associate Hospital Administrator 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
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
Other classifications built on the same terms as Associate Hospital Administrator. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Hospital Administrator (local jurisdiction)
- Assistant Hospital Administrator (local jurisdiction)
- Hospital Attendant (local jurisdiction)
- Hospital Superintendent (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Hospital Attendant (local jurisdiction)
- Hospital Credit Investigator (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Associate Hospital Administrator jobs
How many Associate Hospital Administrator titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Associate Hospital Administrator family holds 4 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Associate Hospital Administrator earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $71,879 at the bottom of Associate Hospital Administrator 2 to $187,691 at the top of Associate Hospital Administrator 1. 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 Associate Hospital Administrator?
Mostly no. 4 of the 4 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 Associate Hospital Administrator need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 4 of the 4 titles. 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 Associate Hospital Administrator staff?
State payroll records show 30 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 22. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Associate Hospital Administrator 1 higher or lower than Associate Hospital Administrator 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.