Education Program Assistant Family
Career series with 3 positions across 2 levels
In New Jersey civil service, Education Program Assistant names a 2-level progression covering 3 distinct titles.
Entry is typically through Education Program Assistant 2, advancing through the ladder toward Education Program Assistant 1. Pay across the family spans $46,727 to $77,371, around the 14th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 27 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Corrections.
Education Program Assistant supervises titles such as Program Specialist and Analyst (grant Applications)/ Program Monitor Analyst.
Positions in This Family
- EDUCATION PROGRAM ASSISTANT 2 (20062) $46,727 - $67,528/year
- EDUCATION PROGRAM ASSISTANT 1 (20063) $53,282 - $77,371/year
- EDUCATION PROGRAM ASSISTANT 1 (20063C) $53,282 - $77,371/year
What the Education Program Assistant family covers
Education Program Assistant is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 3 title codes across 2 levels. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Office support is where New Jersey's classification plan is at its most granular. Typing, transcription, stenography, records, reception and general clerical duties each became their own series, and each series then split into state and local versions, which is why the catalog holds so many near-identical clerical codes. For applicants this granularity is mostly good news: it means a lot of separate eligible lists, most of them asking for a high school diploma and no experience, and it makes clerical work the most common way people enter the system and then transfer sideways.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Education Program Assistant rungs look like this. 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.
- Education Program Assistant 1 — $53,282 to $77,371 (an associate's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Education Program Assistant 2 — $46,727 to $67,528 (an associate's degree and 2 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Education Program Assistant 2 to the top of Education Program Assistant 1 is $30,644, an increase of about 66% 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.
- Education Program Assistant 2: Under direction of a supervisory official in a state department or agency, in an educational setting, performs responsible clerical duties related to…
- Education Program Assistant 1: Under direction of a supervising official in a state department, institution, or agency, in an educational setting, performs the more responsible detailed…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as an associate's degree on 3 of them. Stated experience runs from 2 years 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: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
27 people appear on the state payroll under 2 of these titles, at 5 agencies. Corrections alone accounts for about 37% of them.
- Corrections — 10 employees
- Children and Families — 8 employees
- Juvenile Justice Commission — 5 employees
- Human Services — 3 employees
- Unknown — 1 employee
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $52,181 for Education Program Assistant 2 up to $68,936 for Education Program Assistant 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
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
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Education Program Assistant, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Education Program Specialist 1 ($100,498 to $148,187, state jurisdiction) — in the Education Program Specialist family
- Education Program Development Specialist 1 ($83,582 to $122,832, state jurisdiction) — in the Education Program Development Specialist family
- Education Planner ($69,668 to $101,951, state jurisdiction)
- Curator, Education ($100,498 to $148,187, state jurisdiction)
- Manager 1, Education ($110,276 to $162,870, state jurisdiction) — in the Manager family
- Director 1, Education ($139,326 to $199,731, state jurisdiction) — in the Director family
Common questions about Education Program Assistant jobs
How many separate Education Program Assistant classifications does New Jersey have?
The Education Program Assistant family holds 3 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is an Education Program Assistant paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $46,727 at the bottom of Education Program Assistant 2 to $77,371 at the top of Education Program Assistant 1. 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 Education Program Assistant?
Yes for most of the family. 3 of the 3 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 Education Program Assistant?
The most common education requirement in this family is an associate's degree, named on 3 of the 3 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Education Program Assistant staff?
State payroll records show 27 people in this family across 5 agencies, with Corrections the largest at 10. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Education Program Assistant 1 higher or lower than Education Program Assistant 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.