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Deputy Attorney General Family

Career series with 10 positions across 5 levels

Deputy Attorney General groups 10 related titles into a 5-level career ladder.

Entry is typically through Deputy Attorney General 1, advancing through the ladder toward Deputy Attorney General 5. Pay across the family spans $100,498 to $216,490, around the 99th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 766 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Law and Public Safety.

Deputy Attorney General reports to supervising titles such as Deputy Executive Director Housing Authority and Assistant Deputy Attorney General.

10
Positions
5
Career Levels
Salary Range: $100,498 - $216,490/year

Positions in This Family

What the Deputy Attorney General family covers

Deputy Attorney General covers 10 title codes arranged into 5 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.

Legal titles in New Jersey split into two groups that look similar and are not. Deputy attorneys general, public defenders and public advocates are unclassified: they are appointed, not examined, and their pay is negotiated inside a schedule rather than earned by stepping through it. Hearing officers, appeals examiners and paralegal support titles are ordinary classified positions filled the usual way. Both groups cluster in Law and Public Safety, the Office of Administrative Law and the agencies that run their own hearings, so the work is closer to administrative adjudication than to courtroom practice.

The ladder, ordered by pay

The Deputy Attorney General 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.

The distance from the bottom of Deputy Attorney General 4 to the top of Deputy Attorney General 1 is $115,991, an increase of about 115% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.

  • Deputy Attorney General 5: Under direction of a Deputy Attorney General 1 or 2, or other supervisory official in Department of Law and Public Safety…
  • Deputy Attorney General 4: Under direction of a Deputy Attorney General 1 or 2, or other supervisory official in Department of Law and Public Safety…
  • Deputy Attorney General 2: Under direction of a Deputy Attorney General I or other supervisory official in Department of Law and Public Safety plans…
  • Deputy Attorney General 1: Under administrative direction of the Attorney General, First Assistant Attorney General, or other executive officer in the…
  • Deputy Attorney General 3: Under direction of a Deputy Attorney General 1 or II, or other supervisory official in Department of Law and Public Safety…

Requirements across the family

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 2 years at the lowest rung to 5 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 2 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 766 people working under 4 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Law and Public Safety alone accounts for about 100% of them.

  • Law and Public Safety — 766 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $110,923 for Deputy Attorney General 4 up to $164,489 for Deputy Attorney General 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 4 salary schedules (A-P-R-S, M-Represented, Z, and ZR), 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 Deputy Attorney General. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.

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 Deputy Attorney General.

Common questions about Deputy Attorney General jobs

How many Deputy Attorney General titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Deputy Attorney General family holds 10 title codes arranged across 5 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Deputy Attorney General earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $100,498 at the bottom of Deputy Attorney General 4 to $216,490 at the top of Deputy Attorney General 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 a Deputy Attorney General?

Mostly no. 2 of the 10 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 a Deputy Attorney General 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 to 5 years is named where a requirement is stated.

Which agencies employ Deputy Attorney General staff?

State payroll records show 766 people in this family across 1 agency, with Law and Public Safety the largest at 766. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Deputy Attorney General 1 higher or lower than Deputy Attorney General 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.