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Environmental Specialist Family

Career series with 13 positions across 4 levels

New Jersey classifies Environmental Specialist as a 4-level family, 13 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.

Entry is typically through Environmental Specialist 1, advancing through the ladder toward Environmental Specialist 4. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 1,125 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.

Environmental Specialist is a common next step after Physician Specialist and Health Systems Specialist.

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Positions
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Career Levels
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Specializations
Salary Range: $60,876 - $141,386/year

Specializations

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Positions in This Family

What the Environmental Specialist family covers

New Jersey classifies Environmental Specialist as a 4-level series holding 13 separate title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 9 both state and local and 4 state, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

New Jersey splits environmental work across Environmental Protection, Agriculture, the county mosquito commissions and local utilities authorities, which is why families in this area often carry both state and local title codes. Field titles pair seasonal outdoor work with permitting and enforcement duties, so the same series can require a technical degree at one rung and a commercial driving or pesticide applicator credential at another. Water and sewer titles in particular are concentrated in municipal utilities authorities rather than in state service.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Environmental Specialist family stacks up as follows. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.

Showing the 12 best paid of 13 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Environmental Specialist 1 to the top of Environmental Specialist 4 is $80,510, an increase of about 132% 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.

Showing 8 of 9 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 13 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 12 of them and a master's degree on 1 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 4 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 13 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

1,125 people appear on the state payroll under 6 of these titles, at 4 agencies. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 94% of them.

  • Environmental Protection — 1,060 employees
  • Transportation — 57 employees
  • Military and Veterans Affairs — 6 employees
  • Health and Senior Services — 2 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $58,818 for Environmental Specialist 1 up to $121,977 for Environmental Specialist 4. 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.

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 Environmental Specialist.

Common questions about Environmental Specialist jobs

How many separate Environmental Specialist classifications does New Jersey have?

The Environmental Specialist family holds 13 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is an Environmental Specialist paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Environmental Specialist 1 to $141,386 at the top of Environmental Specialist 4. 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 Environmental Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 13 of the 13 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 Environmental Specialist?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 12 of the 13 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 4 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Environmental Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 1,125 people in this family across 4 agencies, with Environmental Protection the largest at 1,060. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.