Human Services Technician Family
Career series with 1 positions
To land Human Services Technician (deaf Language Specialist) in New Jersey you go through the competitive route: you sit an announced exam and the score puts you on the eligible list agencies hire from.
The one gate is 1 year of relevant experience. The FY2027 range lands between $44,260 and $63,811, and state payroll currently lists about 472 people in the title, most of them at Health and Senior Services.
Human Services Technician is a single-title classification family: Human Services Technician (deaf Language Specialist) is the only position in it. Human Services Technician reports to supervising titles such as Senior Laboratory Technician and Principal Laboratory Technician.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- HUMAN SERVICES TECHNICIAN (DEAF LANGUAGE SPECIALIST) (04116D) $44,260 - $63,811/year
What the Human Services Technician family covers
Human Services Technician 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.
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.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Human Services Technician (deaf Language Specialist): Under direction of a supervisor in a health care facility performs nonprofessional nursing care facility performs nonprofessional…
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 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination. 1 title in this family is covered by the compendium's special incentive program, which lets an appointing authority hire a qualified candidate above the bottom step instead of starting them at step one. See the full list of incentive titles.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 472 people working under 1 of this family's title, spread across 3 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 99% of them.
- Health and Senior Services — 465 employees
- Human Services — 4 employees
- Military and Veterans Affairs — 3 employees
Median actual pay for Human Services Technician (deaf Language Specialist) is $61,653, 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 H salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by AFSCME. 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
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Human Services Technician ($44,260 to $63,811, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Human Services Technician ($46,215 to $66,786, state jurisdiction)
- Human Services Aide (local jurisdiction)
- Human Services Assistant ($38,928 to $55,860, state jurisdiction)
- Human Services Coordinator (local jurisdiction)
- Human Services Specialist 1 (local jurisdiction) — in the Human Services Specialist family
Common questions about Human Services Technician jobs
How many Human Services Technician titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Human Services Technician family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Human Services Technician earn in New Jersey?
Human Services Technician (deaf Language Specialist) is published at $44,260 to $63,811. 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 Human Services Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 1 of the 1 title 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 Human Services 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 year is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Human Services Technician staff?
State payroll records show 472 people in this family across 3 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 465. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.