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Geographic Information Systems Specialist Family

Career series with 6 positions across 3 levels

Geographic Information Systems Specialist is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 6 titles spanning 3 levels.

Entry is typically through Geographic Information Systems Specialist 3, advancing through the ladder toward Geographic Information Systems Specialist 1. Pay across the family spans $66,592 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 68 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.

Geographic Information Systems Specialist commonly advances into Program Specialist and Hazardous Site Mitigation Specialist.

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Positions
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Career Levels
Salary Range: $66,592 - $141,386/year

Positions in This Family

What the Geographic Information Systems Specialist family covers

New Jersey classifies Geographic Information Systems Specialist as a 3-level series holding 6 separate title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 3 both state and local and 3 state, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

New Jersey's technology titles carry the sediment of several eras at once. Newer families cover software development, network administration and database work, while older ones still name data processing, automated typewriters and input and output control. The Office of Information Technology holds most of the modern posts, but agencies keep their own analysts. Information processing titles are the second group in the compendium eligible for advanced-step hiring, which is the state's standing acknowledgement that it cannot fill them at step one.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Geographic Information Systems Specialist family stacks up as follows. 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 Geographic Information Systems Specialist 3 to the top of Geographic Information Systems Specialist 1 is $74,794, an increase of about 112% 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.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 6 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 6 of them. 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: 6 are non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 68 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 9 agencies. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 63% of them.

  • Environmental Protection — 43 employees
  • Office of Information Technology — 11 employees
  • Law and Public Safety — 4 employees
  • Transportation — 4 employees
  • Agriculture — 2 employees
  • Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness — 1 employee

Those are the 6 largest of 9 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $74,743 for Geographic Information Systems Specialist 3 up to $130,339 for Geographic Information Systems Specialist 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

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 Geographic Information Systems Specialist.

Common questions about Geographic Information Systems Specialist jobs

How many Geographic Information Systems Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Geographic Information Systems Specialist family holds 6 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Geographic Information Systems Specialist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $66,592 at the bottom of Geographic Information Systems Specialist 3 to $141,386 at the top of Geographic Information Systems Specialist 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 Geographic Information Systems Specialist?

Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 6. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.

What qualifications does a Geographic Information Systems Specialist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 6 of the 6 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Geographic Information Systems Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 68 people in this family across 9 agencies, with Environmental Protection the largest at 43. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Geographic Information Systems Specialist 1 higher or lower than Geographic Information Systems Specialist 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.