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Guardianship Services Specialist Family

Career series with 6 positions across 3 levels

New Jersey classifies Guardianship Services Specialist as a 3-level family, 6 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.

Entry is typically through Guardianship Services Specialist 1, advancing through the ladder toward Guardianship Services Specialist 3. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $122,832, around the 48th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 82 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Human Services.

Guardianship Services Specialist commonly advances into Program Specialist and Hazardous Site Mitigation Specialist.

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Positions
3
Career Levels
1
Specializations
Salary Range: $60,876 - $122,832/year

Specializations

Fiduciary

Positions in This Family

What the Guardianship Services Specialist family covers

Guardianship Services Specialist is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 6 title codes across 3 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.

Case-carrying titles are the largest civilian block in New Jersey government outside clerical work. They run through the Department of Children and Families, Human Services, county welfare and social services boards, and the guardianship and child support programs. The families are usually built as clean numbered ladders because caseload complexity is what separates one rung from the next, not a change of profession. A social work degree is common at the professional levels, though many of the specialist and technician titles admit experience instead.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Guardianship Services Specialist rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.

The distance from the bottom of Guardianship Services Specialist 1 to the top of Guardianship Services Specialist 3, Fiduciary is $61,956, an increase of about 102% 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.

What it takes to qualify

Across the 6 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 4 of them and a master's degree on 2 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 competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

82 people appear on the state payroll under 2 of these titles, at 1 agency. Human Services alone accounts for about 100% of them.

  • Human Services — 82 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $98,503 for Guardianship Services Specialist 2 up to $98,503 for Guardianship Services Specialist 2, Fiduciary. 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

Hiring for this family runs through state service. Departments, commissions and boards fill these titles from eligible lists built by the Civil Service Commission, so the route in is an announcement and a filing deadline rather than a posting you apply to directly. What state jurisdiction means, and a breakdown of who employs what.

Related titles elsewhere in the plan

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Guardianship Services Specialist, 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 Guardianship Services Specialist.

Common questions about Guardianship Services Specialist jobs

How many separate Guardianship Services Specialist classifications does New Jersey have?

The Guardianship Services 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.

How much is a Guardianship Services Specialist paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Guardianship Services Specialist 1 to $122,832 at the top of Guardianship Services Specialist 3, Fiduciary. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.

Is there a civil service test for Guardianship Services Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 6 of the 6 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.

What are the requirements to become a Guardianship Services Specialist?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 4 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 Guardianship Services Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 82 people in this family across 1 agency, with Human Services the largest at 82. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.