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Community Service Officer Family

Career series with 8 positions across 3 levels

New Jersey classifies Community Service Officer as a 3-level family, 8 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.

Entry is typically through Community Service Officer 1, advancing through the ladder toward Community Service Officer 2 and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 6 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Community Affairs.

Community Service Officer reports to supervising titles such as Principal Staff Officer.

8
Positions
3
Career Levels
2
Specializations
Salary Range: $58,222 - $141,386/year

Specializations

Addictions Tax Collection

Positions in This Family

What the Community Service Officer family covers

New Jersey classifies Community Service Officer as a 3-level series holding 8 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.

Case-carrying titles are the largest civilian block in New Jersey government outside clerical work. They run through the Department of Children and Families, Human Services, county welfare and social services boards, and the guardianship and child support programs. The families are usually built as clean numbered ladders because caseload complexity is what separates one rung from the next, not a change of profession. A social work degree is common at the professional levels, though many of the specialist and technician titles admit experience instead.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Community Service Officer 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.

The distance from the bottom of Community Service Officer 1 Addictions to the top of Supervising Community Service Officer is $83,164, an increase of about 143% 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.

  • Community Service Officer 1 Addictions: Under close supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency assists in planning, developing, and implementing…
  • Community Service Officer 2 Addictions: Under direction of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, plans and develops programs for the rehabilitation and…
  • Community Service Officer 3 Addictions: Under direction of a supervisory official, in a state department, institution, or agency, organizes, coordinates, supervises, and evaluates all…
  • Community Service Officer 3: Under supervision of a Community Service Officer 1 or supervisory official in the Department of Community Affairs, provides technical assistance to…
  • Community Service Officer 2: Under the supervision of a Community Service Officer I or other supervisory officer in the Department of Community Affairs, assists in the planning and…
  • Community Service Officer 1: Under supervision of a Supervising Community Service Officer or other supervisory official in the Department of Community Affairs, provides technical…
  • Community Service Officer 1, Tax Collection: Under the direction of a Supervising Community Service Officer, Tax Collection, Department of Community Affairs, in larger municipalities…
  • Supervising Community Service Officer: Under the direction of the division director, or other Supervisory official in the Department of Community Affairs, supervises employees and…

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 8 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 7 of them and a bachelor'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.

1 of the 8 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 8 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination. 1 title in this family is covered by the compendium's special incentive program, which lets an appointing authority hire a qualified candidate above the bottom step instead of starting them at step one. See the full list of incentive titles.

Who actually employs these titles

6 people appear on the state payroll under 4 of these titles, at 1 agency. Community Affairs alone accounts for about 100% of them.

  • Community Affairs — 6 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $67,312 for Community Service Officer 2 up to $110,268 for Supervising Community Service Officer. 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

Hiring for this family runs through state service. Departments, commissions and boards fill these titles from eligible lists built by the Civil Service Commission, so the route in is an announcement and a filing deadline rather than a posting you apply to directly. What state jurisdiction means, and a breakdown of who employs 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.

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 Community Service Officer.

Common questions about Community Service Officer jobs

How many separate Community Service Officer classifications does New Jersey have?

The Community Service Officer family holds 8 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is a Community Service Officer paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Community Service Officer 1 Addictions to $141,386 at the top of Supervising Community Service Officer. 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 Community Service Officer?

Yes for most of the family. 8 of the 8 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 a Community Service Officer?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 7 of the 8 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. 1 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Community Service Officer staff?

State payroll records show 6 people in this family across 1 agency, with Community Affairs the largest at 6. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Community Service Officer 1 higher or lower than Community Service Officer 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.