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Clerk Typist Family

Career series with 4 positions across 1 levels

Clerk Typist groups 4 related titles into a 1-level career ladder.

The family is anchored by Clerk Typist 2, Evidence-Handling. Pay across the family spans $39,358 to $67,528, around the 6th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 184 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Children and Families.

Clerk Typist commonly advances into Clerk and Clerk Stenographer.

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Positions
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Career Levels
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Specializations
Salary Range: $39,358 - $67,528/year

Specializations

Evidence-handling

Positions in This Family

What the Clerk Typist family covers

Clerk Typist is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 1 specialization, which together account for 4 title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 3 state and 1 both state and 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

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Clerk Typist rungs look like this.

The distance from the bottom of Principal Clerk Typist to the top of Clerk Typist 2, Evidence-Handling is $28,170, an increase of about 72% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.

  • Principal Clerk Typist: Under the general supervision of a supervisory official, performs complex typing and other related clerical work requiring knowledge and independent interpretation…
  • Clerk Typist 2, Evidence-Handling: Under direction of a supervisory official, in State Forensic and Toxicology Laboratories in the Division of Criminal Justice or State Police in the…

What it takes to qualify

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. Experience requirements sit at 2 years wherever they are stated.

On how the jobs are filled: 4 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 184 people working under 1 of this family's title, spread across 18 agencies. Children and Families alone accounts for about 58% of them.

  • Children and Families — 106 employees
  • Health and Senior Services — 13 employees
  • Human Services — 11 employees
  • Corrections — 10 employees
  • Labor — 9 employees
  • Law and Public Safety — 6 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 18 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay for Principal Clerk Typist is $62,340, which is what people in the title are really paid rather than the published band.

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

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Clerk Typist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.

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 Clerk Typist.

Common questions about Clerk Typist jobs

How many Clerk Typist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Clerk Typist family holds 4 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Clerk Typist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $39,358 at the bottom of Principal Clerk Typist to $67,528 at the top of Clerk Typist 2, Evidence-Handling. 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 Typist?

Yes for most of the family. 4 of the 4 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 Typist 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 2 years is named where a requirement is stated.

Which agencies employ Clerk Typist staff?

State payroll records show 184 people in this family across 18 agencies, with Children and Families the largest at 106. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.