Hearings Examiner Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
As an unclassified state title, Hearings Examiner 1 Public Employment Relations Commission is filled by appointment, and its published pay band is more of a guide than a fixed grade.
Eligibility comes down to 4 years of relevant experience. The FY2027 range lands between $126,854 and $187,691, and state payroll lists a single employee in the title, at Labor.
Hearings Examiner is a single-title classification family: Hearings Examiner 1 Public Employment Relations Commission is the only position in it. Hearings Examiner commonly advances into Examiner and License Examiner.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- HEARINGS EXAMINER 1 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION (65476) $126,854 - $187,691/year
What the Hearings Examiner family covers
Hearings Examiner is a single-title family in the New Jersey civil service classification plan: one title code, with no numbered rungs above or below it. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Legal titles in New Jersey split into two groups that look similar and are not. Deputy attorneys general, public defenders and public advocates are unclassified: they are appointed, not examined, and their pay is negotiated inside a schedule rather than earned by stepping through it. Hearing officers, appeals examiners and paralegal support titles are ordinary classified positions filled the usual way. Both groups cluster in Law and Public Safety, the Office of Administrative Law and the agencies that run their own hearings, so the work is closer to administrative adjudication than to courtroom practice.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Hearings Examiner 1 Public Employment Relations Commission: Under the direction of the Chairman and in conformance with the Commission's Rules and the Procedure Act, presides at difficult…
Getting in: the stated requirements
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. Experience requirements sit at 4 years wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 1 people working under 1 of this family's title, spread across 1 agency. Labor alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Labor — 1 employee
Median actual pay for Hearings Examiner 1 Public Employment Relations Commission is $169,588, which is what people in the title are really paid rather than the published band.
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 V-W-Y salary schedule. See every step in that schedule.
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
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Hearings Examiner Ii, Perc ($110,276 to $162,870, state jurisdiction)
- Hearings and Review Officer Labor ($95,955 to $141,386, state jurisdiction)
- Director, Division of Hearings, State Parole Board ($126,854 to $187,691, state jurisdiction) — in the Director family
- Senior Claims Adjudicator Specialist Disability Hearings Officer ($79,844 to $117,228, state jurisdiction)
- Chief Examiner ($83,210 to $116,477, state jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Title Examiner ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Hearings Examiner jobs
How many Hearings Examiner titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Hearings Examiner family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Hearings Examiner earn in New Jersey?
Hearings Examiner 1 Public Employment Relations Commission is published at $126,854 to $187,691. Salary depends on the salary range assigned to the title and the step the employee has reached.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Hearings Examiner?
Mostly no. 1 of the 1 title here are unclassified, so appointment is at the employer's discretion rather than from an eligible list, and salary is set individually rather than by a published step. That also makes cross-agency salary comparison less reliable for these titles.
What qualifications does a Hearings Examiner 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 4 years is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Hearings Examiner staff?
State payroll records show 1 people in this family across 1 agency, with Labor the largest at 1. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.