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Field Service Supervisor Family

Career series with 8 positions across 3 levels

Field Service Supervisor groups 8 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.

Entry is typically through Field Service Supervisor 1 Quality Control, advancing through the ladder toward Field Service Supervisor 2 Family Development. Pay across the family spans $56,315 to $128,719, around the 54th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 49 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Human Services.

Field Service Supervisor commonly advances into Food Service Supervisor and Assistant Family Service Worker.

8
Positions
3
Career Levels
5
Specializations
Salary Range: $56,315 - $128,719/year

Specializations

Children & Families Family Development Medical Assistance & Health Services Quality Control Youth And Family Services 62165g

Positions in This Family

What the Field Service Supervisor family covers

Field Service Supervisor is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 8 title codes across 3 levels. The family straddles jurisdictions: 7 state and 1 both state and local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

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

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Field Service Supervisor 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.

The distance from the bottom of Field Service Supervisor 1 Family Development to the top of Field Service Supervisor 1 Quality Control is $72,404, an increase of about 129% over the entry minimum. 2 of the 8 titles in the family sit on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.

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.

What it takes to qualify

Across the 8 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 8 of them. Stated experience runs from 2 years 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 49 people working under 8 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Human Services alone accounts for about 100% of them.

  • Human Services — 49 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $103,187 for Field Service Supervisor 3 Children & Families up to $124,366 for Field Service Supervisor 1 Medical Assistance & Health Services. 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 2 salary schedules (A-P-R-S and M), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. 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

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Field Service Supervisor, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.

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 Field Service Supervisor.

Common questions about Field Service Supervisor jobs

How many Field Service Supervisor titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

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

What does a Field Service Supervisor earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $56,315 at the bottom of Field Service Supervisor 1 Family Development to $128,719 at the top of Field Service Supervisor 1 Quality Control. 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 Field Service Supervisor?

Yes for most of the family. 7 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 qualifications does a Field Service Supervisor need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 8 of the 8 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 to 4 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Field Service Supervisor staff?

State payroll records show 49 people in this family across 1 agency, with Human Services the largest at 49. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Field Service Supervisor 1 higher or lower than Field Service Supervisor 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.