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Auditor Family

Career series with 19 positions across 3 levels

In New Jersey civil service, Auditor names a 3-level progression covering 19 distinct titles.

Entry is typically through Auditor 1, advancing through the ladder toward Auditor 2 and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $141,386, around the 68th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 473 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Treasury.

Auditor is closely related to Municipal Finance Auditor.

19
Positions
3
Career Levels
1
Specializations
Salary Range: $60,876 - $141,386/year

Specializations

Taxation

Positions in This Family

... and 4 more positions

What the Auditor family covers

New Jersey classifies Auditor as a 3-level series holding 19 separate title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 16 state and 2 local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

Financial titles are unusually legible compared with the rest of the plan, because the duties track a professional body of practice rather than an agency's internal structure. That makes the ladders predictable, the qualification language consistent, and movement between departments straightforward. It also makes them one of the better-documented corners of the state payroll, since almost every department employs some of them, so the headcount and salary figures for these families rest on large samples rather than a handful of positions.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Auditor 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.

  • Supervising Auditor — $95,955 to $141,386
  • Auditor 1 — $87,507 to $128,719 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
  • Auditor 3 Taxation — $87,507 to $128,719 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
  • Auditor 3 — $83,582 to $122,832 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
  • Auditor 3 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
  • Auditor 2 Taxation — $79,844 to $117,228 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
  • Auditor 2 — $76,287 to $111,856 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
  • Auditor 2 Taxation — $76,287 to $111,856 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
  • Auditor 2 — $72,896 to $106,798 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
  • Auditor 2 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
  • Auditor 1 Taxation — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
  • Auditor 3 — $66,592 to $97,354 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)

Showing the 12 best paid of 15 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Auditor 1 to the top of Supervising Auditor is $80,510, an increase of about 132% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.

  • Principal Auditor: Under direction, performs highly responsible work involved in auditing and keeping extensive financial records and reports requiring thorough knowledge of relevant…
  • Senior Auditor: Under direction, performs the more difficult and complex work involved in auditing and keeping extensive financial records and reports and/or takes the lead over a small…
  • Auditor 1 Taxation: Under direction of a Supervising Auditor, Taxation, or other supervisory official, Division of Taxation, Department of Treasury, does auditing or accounting work of…
  • Auditor 2 Taxation: Under direction of a Supervising Auditor, Taxation, or Auditor 3, Taxation, Division of Taxation, Department of the Treasury, takes the lead in (l) a group of auditors…
  • Auditor 3 Taxation: Under direction of a Supervising Auditor, Taxation, in the Division of Taxation, Department of the Treasury, supervises the field or office auditing work and/or…
  • Auditor 1: Under limited supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, does independent auditing or accounting work of average difficulty; does…
  • Auditor 2: Under general supervision in a state department or agency, leads a group of auditors conducting audits of financial transactions and records of private corporations, state, and…
  • Auditor 3: Under direction of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency performs duties of significant difficulty and/or supervises staff and work activities of…

Showing 8 of 12 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 19 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 17 of them and a master's degree on 1 of them. 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.

On how the jobs are filled: 17 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination and 1 is non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.

Who actually employs these titles

473 people appear on the state payroll under 6 of these titles, at 15 agencies. Treasury alone accounts for about 65% of them.

  • Treasury — 309 employees
  • Labor — 65 employees
  • Motor Vehicle Commission — 22 employees
  • Transportation — 20 employees
  • Human Services — 15 employees
  • Office of State Comptroller — 12 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 15 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $70,431 for Auditor 1 up to $128,248 for Supervising Auditor. 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

Because the family mixes jurisdictions, the answer to "who hires this" depends on the specific code. State codes run through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process; local codes are hired by the counties, municipalities and authorities that adopted civil service under Title 11A. Check an employer's status before assuming a title is available where you live.

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.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Auditor.

Common questions about Auditor jobs

How many separate Auditor classifications does New Jersey have?

The Auditor family holds 19 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 Auditor paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Auditor 1 to $141,386 at the top of Supervising Auditor. 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 Auditor?

Yes for most of the family. 17 of the 19 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.

What are the requirements to become an Auditor?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 17 of the 19 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Auditor staff?

State payroll records show 473 people in this family across 15 agencies, with Treasury the largest at 309. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Auditor 1 higher or lower than Auditor 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.