Clerk Transcriber - Family
Career series with 9 positions across 1 levels
Clerk Transcriber - is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 9 titles spanning 1 level.
The family is anchored by Clerk Transcriber - 10 Months. Pay across the family spans $31,940 to $64,522, around the 4th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 35 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Law and Public Safety.
Clerk Transcriber - reports to supervising titles such as Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk and Senior Clerk Typist.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- PRINCIPAL CLERK TRANSCRIBER (02779)
- SENIOR CLERK TRANSCRIBER (03255)
- SENIOR CLERK TRANSCRIBER (06718)
- PRINCIPAL CLERK TRANSCRIBER (07908)
- CLERK TRANSCRIBER - 10 MONTHS (23330) $31,940 - $45,334/year
- SENIOR CLERK TRANSCRIBER (23333) $39,358 - $56,481/year
- SENIOR CLERK TRANSCRIBER (23333F) $39,358 - $56,481/year
- PRINCIPAL CLERK TRANSCRIBER (23334) $44,750 - $64,522/year
- PRINCIPAL CLERK TRANSCRIBER (23334C) $44,750 - $64,522/year
What the Clerk Transcriber family covers
Clerk Transcriber is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 1 specialization, which together account for 9 title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 5 state and 4 local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.
Clerical series are the entry door to New Jersey civil service and the largest group by headcount. They are also the most duplicated: nearly every one exists in both a state and a local version, and the local versions are what municipal clerks, county offices and boards of education hire against. Most require a high school diploma and nothing more, which makes them the practical route in for applicants without a degree. Advancement runs by responsibility, from clerk to senior to principal to head, with the specialised transcription and stenography variants branching off partway up.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Clerk Transcriber family stacks up as follows.
- Principal Clerk Transcriber — $44,750 to $64,522 (2 years of experience)
- Senior Clerk Transcriber — $39,358 to $56,481 (1 year of experience)
- Clerk Transcriber - 10 Months — $31,940 to $45,334
The distance from the bottom of Clerk Transcriber - 10 Months to the top of Principal Clerk Transcriber is $32,582, an increase of about 102% 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 Clerk Transcriber: Under direction, acts as secretary to a supervisory official, supervises work of a group of clerk transcribers and senior clerk transcribers, or is responsible…
- Senior Clerk Transcriber: Under general supervision of a Principal Clerk Transcriber or other supervisory official, transcribes dictation from recording equipment and/or…
- Clerk Transcriber - 10 Months: Under supervision, types copy from Ediphone, Dictaphone, Soundscriber, Gray Audiograph or other recording equipment; does related work as required. NOTE…
- Principal Clerk Transcriber: Under the general supervision of a supervisory official, performs complex transcription and other related clerical work requiring knowledge and independent…
Getting in: the stated requirements
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 2 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
On how the jobs are filled: 8 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
State payroll records show 35 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 5 agencies. Law and Public Safety alone accounts for about 43% of them.
- Law and Public Safety — 15 employees
- Labor — 9 employees
- Human Services — 8 employees
- State Parole Board — 2 employees
- Children and Families — 1 employee
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $54,571 for Senior Clerk Transcriber up to $62,340 for Principal Clerk Transcriber. 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.
- Clerk Transcriber (local jurisdiction)
- Clerk Transcriber (local jurisdiction)
- Clerk Transcriber ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction)
- Clerk Transcriber ($36,169 to $51,722, state jurisdiction)
- Principal Clerk Transcriber Deaf Language Specialist ($44,750 to $64,522, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Medical Transcriber (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Clerk Transcriber jobs
How many Clerk Transcriber titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Clerk Transcriber family holds 9 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Clerk Transcriber earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $31,940 at the bottom of Clerk Transcriber - 10 Months to $64,522 at the top of Principal Clerk Transcriber. 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 a Clerk Transcriber?
Yes for most of the family. 8 of the 9 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What qualifications does a Clerk Transcriber need?
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 2 years is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Clerk Transcriber staff?
State payroll records show 35 people in this family across 5 agencies, with Law and Public Safety the largest at 15. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.