Labor Market Analyst Family
Career series with 4 positions across 4 levels
New Jersey classifies Labor Market Analyst as a 4-level family, 4 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Labor Market Analyst 4, advancing through the ladder toward Labor Market Analyst 1. Pay across the family spans $60,876 to $134,900, around the 64th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 30 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Labor.
Labor Market Analyst is a common next step after Analyst and Telecommunications Systems Analyst.
Positions in This Family
- LABOR MARKET ANALYST 4 (54142) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- LABOR MARKET ANALYST 3 (54143) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- LABOR MARKET ANALYST 2 (54144) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- LABOR MARKET ANALYST 1 (54145) $91,628 - $134,900/year
What the Labor Market Analyst family covers
Labor Market Analyst is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 4 title codes across 4 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.
Analyst and planner titles are where New Jersey puts the work of deciding rather than delivering: land use, capital programming, rate setting, program evaluation and policy research. Many exist at the local level because municipal and county planning boards were early adopters of civil service, so the family may hold only local codes even when the same work happens at the state under a different name. The qualification pattern is consistent, a bachelor's degree at entry with experience substituting upward, and the ladders are usually clean numbered progressions.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Labor Market Analyst rungs look like this. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.
- Labor Market Analyst 1 — $91,628 to $134,900 (a master's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Labor Market Analyst 2 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a master's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Labor Market Analyst 3 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Labor Market Analyst 4 — $60,876 to $88,743 (a master's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Labor Market Analyst 4 to the top of Labor Market Analyst 1 is $74,024, an increase of about 122% 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.
- Labor Market Analyst 4: Under direct supervision of a supervisory official in the Department of Labor, performs routine tasks associated with the collection/generation, coding, analysis…
- Labor Market Analyst 3: Under the general supervision of supervisory official in the Department of Labor, performs moderately difficult assignments associated with the…
- Labor Market Analyst 2: Under the direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Labor, performs assignments of considerable technical difficulty or has primary responsibility…
- Labor Market Analyst 1: Under the direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Labor, supervises a major program or project in the collection/generation, analysis, or…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 4 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 4 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: 4 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
30 people appear on the state payroll under 4 of these titles, at 1 agency. Labor alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Labor — 30 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $64,203 for Labor Market Analyst 4 up to $124,067 for Labor Market Analyst 1. 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 Labor Market Analyst, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Labor Market Analyst Trainee ($55,691 to $58,222, state jurisdiction)
- Chief Labor Market Information ($100,498 to $148,187, state jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Securities Market Trader 1 — in the Securities Market Trader family
- Market Regulation Specialist 1 ($60,876 to $88,743, state jurisdiction) — in the Market Regulation Specialist family
- Securities Market Trader Trainee ($63,663 to $66,592, state jurisdiction)
- Investigator Aide Labor ($53,282 to $77,371, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Labor Market Analyst jobs
How many separate Labor Market Analyst classifications does New Jersey have?
The Labor Market Analyst family holds 4 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Labor Market Analyst paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $60,876 at the bottom of Labor Market Analyst 4 to $134,900 at the top of Labor Market Analyst 1. 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 Labor Market Analyst?
Yes for most of the family. 4 of the 4 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 Labor Market Analyst?
The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 4 of the 4 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 Labor Market Analyst staff?
State payroll records show 30 people in this family across 1 agency, with Labor the largest at 30. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Labor Market Analyst 1 higher or lower than Labor Market Analyst 3?
In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.