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Institutional Trade Instructor Family

Career series with 24 positions across 2 levels

In New Jersey civil service, Institutional Trade Instructor names a 2-level progression covering 24 distinct titles.

Entry is typically through Institutional Trade Instructor 1 Metal, advancing through the ladder toward Institutional Trade Instructor 2 Metal and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $55,079 to $97,354, around the 27th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 1,185 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Corrections.

Institutional Trade Instructor is a common next step after Instructor.

24
Positions
2
Career Levels
16
Specializations
Salary Range: $55,079 - $97,354/year

Specializations

Baking Carpentry Clothing Cooking Electronics Farm Operations Food Processing General Maintenance +8 more

Positions in This Family

... and 9 more positions

What the Institutional Trade Instructor family covers

Institutional Trade Instructor is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 24 title codes across 2 levels. The family straddles jurisdictions: 22 state and 1 both state and local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

Skilled and semi-skilled labor is the part of the classification plan that never moved to a degree. Qualification rests on demonstrated ability, and for a great many of these titles the operative credential is a valid New Jersey driver's license of the right class rather than a diploma. The work is also the most physically specific in the plan, which is why the specifications read as lists of tasks and equipment instead of the general responsibility language used elsewhere. Because public works, water and sewer utilities, parks and school plants each run their own yards, near-identical jobs end up as separate title codes in separate places.

The ladder, ordered by pay

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

Showing the 12 best paid of 23 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Institutional Trade Instructor 1 Cooking to the top of Supervising Institutional Trade Instructor is $42,275, an increase of about 77% 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.

Showing 8 of 24 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

What it takes to qualify

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. Stated experience runs from 2 years at the lowest rung to 4 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

1 of the 24 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 23 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

1,185 people appear on the state payroll under 11 of these titles, at 3 agencies. Corrections alone accounts for about 94% of them.

  • Corrections — 1,114 employees
  • Juvenile Justice Commission — 60 employees
  • Health and Senior Services — 11 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $72,566 for Institutional Trade Instructor 2 Metal up to $91,090 for Supervising Institutional Trade Instructor. 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

The family is split across 2 salary schedules (A-P-R-S and H), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. More than one union has members in this family: AFSCME and CWA.

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

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Institutional Trade Instructor, 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 Institutional Trade Instructor.

Common questions about Institutional Trade Instructor jobs

How many separate Institutional Trade Instructor classifications does New Jersey have?

The Institutional Trade Instructor family holds 24 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is an Institutional Trade Instructor paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $55,079 at the bottom of Institutional Trade Instructor 1 Cooking to $97,354 at the top of Supervising Institutional Trade Instructor. 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 Institutional Trade Instructor?

Yes for most of the family. 23 of the 24 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 an Institutional Trade Instructor?

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 2 to 4 years is named where a requirement is stated. 1 of the titles require a license or certification.

Which agencies employ Institutional Trade Instructor staff?

State payroll records show 1,185 people in this family across 3 agencies, with Corrections the largest at 1,114. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.