Fingerprint Processing Technician Family
Career series with 2 positions across 2 levels
Fingerprint Processing Technician groups 2 related titles into a 2-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Fingerprint Processing Technician 1, advancing through the ladder toward Fingerprint Processing Technician 2. Pay across the family spans $48,807 to $77,371, around the 14th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 7 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Law and Public Safety.
Fingerprint Processing Technician commonly advances into Training Technician and Drafting Technician / Clerk.
Positions in This Family
- FINGERPRINT PROCESSING TECHNICIAN 2 (45011) $53,282 - $77,371/year
- FINGERPRINT PROCESSING TECHNICIAN 1 (45013) $48,807 - $70,641/year
What the Fingerprint Processing Technician family covers
Fingerprint Processing Technician is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 2 title codes across 2 levels. Its titles are common jurisdiction, meaning the same classification is used at the state level and by local civil service employers alike.
Sworn and investigative titles sit apart from the rest of civil service. They carry their own salary schedules, their own unions and, in most cases, an academy requirement and a medical and psychological screen on top of the exam. Rank is handled by moving between titles rather than by moving up a range, so the ladder here is a sequence of separate classifications. New Jersey also runs a large civilian investigative service alongside the sworn forces, and those titles follow ordinary competitive rules even though the work overlaps.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Fingerprint Processing Technician rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Fingerprint Processing Technician 2 — $53,282 to $77,371 (3 years of experience)
- Fingerprint Processing Technician 1 — $48,807 to $70,641 (1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Fingerprint Processing Technician 1 to the top of Fingerprint Processing Technician 2 is $28,563, an increase of about 59% 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.
- Fingerprint Processing Technician 2: Under the general direction of the Assistant Supervisor and/or the Supervisor, Fingerprint Technical Unit, State Bureau of Identification, Records and…
- Fingerprint Processing Technician 1: Under the general direction of a Fingerprint Processing Technician 2, Assistant Supervisor or the Supervisor, Fingerprint Technical Unit, in the Bureau…
What it takes to qualify
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 1 year 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: 2 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 7 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Law and Public Safety alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Law and Public Safety — 7 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $49,266 for Fingerprint Processing Technician 1 up to $70,099 for Fingerprint Processing Technician 2. 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 common jurisdiction titles, which is the most flexible position to be in as an applicant: the same classification is used by state departments and by local civil service employers, so an eligible list built in one place still describes work you can do in the other. What common jurisdiction means.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Fingerprint Processing Technician, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Fingerprint Processing Technician Apprentice ($44,750 to $64,522, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Data Processing Technician (local jurisdiction)
- Data Processing Programmer Technician ($46,727 to $67,528, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Data Processing Analyst 1 — in the Data Processing Analyst family
- Data Processing Programmer (local jurisdiction)
- Data Processing Coordinator (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Fingerprint Processing Technician jobs
How many Fingerprint Processing Technician titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Fingerprint Processing Technician family holds 2 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Fingerprint Processing Technician earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $48,807 at the bottom of Fingerprint Processing Technician 1 to $77,371 at the top of Fingerprint Processing Technician 2. 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 Fingerprint Processing Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 2 of the 2 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 Fingerprint Processing Technician 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 1 to 3 years is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Fingerprint Processing Technician staff?
State payroll records show 7 people in this family across 1 agency, with Law and Public Safety the largest at 7. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.