Food Service Supervisor Family
Career series with 5 positions across 4 levels
Food Service Supervisor is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 5 titles spanning 4 levels.
Entry is typically through Food Service Supervisor 4, advancing through the ladder toward Food Service Supervisor 1. Pay across the family spans $63,663 to $122,832, around the 48th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 24 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Corrections.
Food Service Supervisor is a common next step after Assistant Food Service Supervisor and Supervising Family Service Specialist.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR 4 (44734) $63,663 - $92,953/year
- FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR, 3 (44735) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR 2 - 10 MONTHS (44743) $66,592 - $97,354/year
- FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR 2 (44744) $76,287 - $111,856/year
- FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR 1 (44745) $83,582 - $122,832/year
What the Food Service Supervisor family covers
Food Service Supervisor is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 5 title codes across 4 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.
Institutional food service keeps the state hospitals, correctional facilities, developmental centers and veterans homes fed, and it runs on a small ladder from worker to cook to supervisor. Nutrition titles sit alongside it but belong to public health: they run the WIC program and dietary planning rather than the kitchen. Because the work follows the institution rather than the office, these titles carry unusual work weeks and shift patterns, and several exist in both twelve-month and ten-month variants.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Food 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.
- Food Service Supervisor 1 — $83,582 to $122,832 (a bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience)
- Food Service Supervisor 2 — $76,287 to $111,856 (a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Food Service Supervisor, 3 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree)
- Food Service Supervisor 2 - 10 Months — $66,592 to $97,354 (a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Food Service Supervisor 4 — $63,663 to $92,953 (a bachelor's degree)
The distance from the bottom of Food Service Supervisor 4 to the top of Food Service Supervisor 1 is $59,169, an increase of about 93% 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.
- Food Service Supervisor 4: Under a Business Manager or other supervisor in a state institution, hospital, or college with a resident inmate, patient, or student population under 200, has…
- Food Service Supervisor, 3: Under a Business Manager or other supervisory official in a state institution, hospital, or college with a resident inmate, patient, or student population of…
- Food Service Supervisor 2 - 10 Months: Under a Business Manager or other supervisory official in a large and complex state institution, hospital, or college with a resident inmate…
- Food Service Supervisor 2: Under a Business Manager or other supervisory official in a large and complex state institution, hospital, or college with a resident inmate, patient, or…
- Food Service Supervisor 1: Under a business manager or other supervisory officer in a very large, complex state institution, hospital or college with a resident inmate, patient or student…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 5 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 5 of them. Stated experience runs from 4 years at the lowest rung to 5 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
On how the jobs are filled: 5 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 24 people working under 4 of this family's titles, spread across 7 agencies. Corrections alone accounts for about 33% of them.
- Corrections — 8 employees
- Human Services — 5 employees
- Military and Veterans Affairs — 4 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 3 employees
- Juvenile Justice Commission — 2 employees
- Children and Families — 1 employee
Those are the 6 largest of 7 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $72,830 for Food Service Supervisor 4 up to $111,094 for Food Service Supervisor 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
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
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Food Service Supervisor, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Food Service Manager (local jurisdiction)
- Supervisor Food Service (local jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Senior Food Service Worker (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Food Service Handler ($38,928 to $55,860, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Food Service Handler ($38,928 to $55,860, state jurisdiction)
- Assistant Food Service Manager (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Food Service Supervisor jobs
How many Food Service Supervisor titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Food Service Supervisor family holds 5 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Food Service Supervisor earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $63,663 at the bottom of Food Service Supervisor 4 to $122,832 at the top of Food Service Supervisor 1. 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 Food Service Supervisor?
Yes for most of the family. 5 of the 5 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 Food Service Supervisor need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 5 of the 5 titles. Stated experience ranges from 4 to 5 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Food Service Supervisor staff?
State payroll records show 24 people in this family across 7 agencies, with Corrections the largest at 8. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Food Service Supervisor 1 higher or lower than Food 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.