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Instructor Family

Career series with 2 positions across 1 levels

Instructor groups 2 related titles into a 1-level career ladder.

The family is anchored by Instructor 1 12 Months. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $106,798, around the 34th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 6 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Education.

Instructor commonly advances into Institutional Trade Instructor.

2
Positions
1
Career Levels
2
Specializations
Salary Range: $58,222 - $106,798/year

Specializations

12 Months Education - 10 Months

Positions in This Family

What the Instructor family covers

Instructor is a rank rather than a single job. New Jersey applies it across 2 specializations, which together account for 2 title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.

Public school teachers in New Jersey are not civil service, so the education titles in this system are the ones that sit outside a classroom: instructors in correctional and developmental facilities, curriculum and program development staff, and the education specialists at the Department of Education. Library titles are different again. County and municipal libraries are among the local employers that adopted civil service in their own right, which is why librarian and library assistant series carry local codes and appear in the local jurisdiction directory.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the 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.

The distance from the bottom of Instructor 1, Education - 10 Months to the top of Instructor 1 12 Months is $48,576, an increase of about 83% 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.

  • Instructor 1, Education - 10 Months: Under the direction of an administrator, principal, supervisor or Administrative Instructor in a Department of…
  • Instructor 1 12 Months: Under the direction of a Supervisor of Educational Programs, or an Assistant Supervisor, plans, executes, and evaluates the lessons…

What it takes to qualify

Across the 2 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 2 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 2 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

Every title here carries a license or certification requirement, so the credential matters more than the exam score. On how the jobs are filled: 2 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 6 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 2 agencies. Education alone accounts for about 83% of them.

  • Education — 5 employees
  • Corrections — 1 employee

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $76,768 for Instructor 1, Education - 10 Months up to $103,187 for Instructor 1 12 Months. 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

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

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

Common questions about Instructor jobs

How many Instructor titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

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

What does an Instructor earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Instructor 1, Education - 10 Months to $106,798 at the top of Instructor 1 12 Months. 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 an Instructor?

Mostly no. 2 of the 2 titles 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 an Instructor need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 2 of the 2 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 2 years depending on the rung. 2 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Instructor staff?

State payroll records show 6 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Education the largest at 5. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.