Executive Assistant Family
Career series with 7 positions across 4 levels
Executive Assistant is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 7 titles spanning 4 levels.
Entry is typically through Executive Assistant 1, advancing through the ladder toward Executive Assistant 4. Pay across the family spans $69,668 to $162,870, around the 91st percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 235 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.
Executive Assistant is closely related to Deputy Executive Director Housing Authority.
Positions in This Family
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 1 (59914) $72,896 - $106,798/year
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 1 (59915) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 2 (59916) $83,582 - $122,832/year
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 3 (59917) $95,955 - $141,386/year
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 4 (59918) $110,276 - $162,870/year
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 2 (59919) $87,507 - $128,719/year
- EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 3 (59933) $100,498 - $148,187/year
What the Executive Assistant family covers
New Jersey classifies Executive Assistant as a 4-level series holding 7 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.
Chief, director, manager and supervisor are not single jobs in New Jersey civil service. They are ranks applied across the whole of government, so a single family can hold hundreds of codes covering entirely unrelated bureaus. That structure matters for anyone reading the pay figures: two titles in the same family may share nothing except a level of responsibility. Most of these positions are managerial or unclassified, which means salaries are set individually rather than by stepping through a published ladder, and the managerial schedule itself has been frozen since 2007.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Executive Assistant 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.
- Executive Assistant 4 — $110,276 to $162,870 (a master's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Executive Assistant 3 — $100,498 to $148,187 (a master's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Executive Assistant 3 — $95,955 to $141,386 (a master's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Executive Assistant 2 — $87,507 to $128,719 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Executive Assistant 2 — $83,582 to $122,832 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Executive Assistant 1 — $72,896 to $106,798 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Executive Assistant 1 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Executive Assistant 1 to the top of Executive Assistant 4 is $93,202, an increase of about 134% 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.
- Executive Assistant 1: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 1  …
- Executive Assistant 2: Under direction of a Bureau Chief in a state department or head of an agency, institution, or college, acts as staff and representative responsible for assisting in…
- Executive Assistant 3: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT 3  …
- Executive Assistant 4: Under direction of a commissioner, deputy commissioner, assistant commissioner, or other executive official with responsibility for more than one division in a…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 7 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 7 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: 7 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 235 people working under 4 of this family's titles, spread across 29 agencies. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 16% of them.
- Environmental Protection — 38 employees
- Law and Public Safety — 27 employees
- Labor — 26 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 22 employees
- Corrections — 18 employees
- Treasury — 17 employees
Those are the 6 largest of 29 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $86,027 for Executive Assistant 1 up to $144,659 for Executive Assistant 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
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
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Executive Director (state jurisdiction)
- Executive Director
- Executive Assistant (local jurisdiction)
- Executive Secretary (state jurisdiction)
- Executive Housekeeper (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Executive Service (state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Executive Assistant jobs
How many Executive Assistant titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Executive Assistant family holds 7 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Executive Assistant earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $69,668 at the bottom of Executive Assistant 1 to $162,870 at the top of Executive Assistant 4. 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 an Executive Assistant?
Yes for most of the family. 7 of the 7 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 an Executive Assistant need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 7 of the 7 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 Executive Assistant staff?
State payroll records show 235 people in this family across 29 agencies, with Environmental Protection the largest at 38. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.