Laborer 1/clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Because Laborer 1/Clerk 2 is non-competitive, hiring leans on your background rather than a test score: meet the requirements and apply to the agency directly.
It asks for 1 year of relevant experience.
Laborer 1/Clerk is a single-title classification family: Laborer 1/Clerk 2 is the only position in it. Laborer 1/Clerk commonly advances into Laborer and Clerk 1/Clerk Stenographer.
Positions in This Family
- LABORER 1/CLERK 2 (05491)
What the Laborer 1/Clerk family covers
Laborer 1/Clerk 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 local title, used by the counties, municipalities, authorities and boards that have adopted civil service under Title 11A rather than by state departments.
Trades and maintenance titles are the most heavily local group in the whole classification plan. Public works yards, water and sewer utilities, parks departments and school district plants hire them, so the family often exists only with local codes and never appears on state payroll at all. Qualification usually rests on demonstrated skill and a driving credential rather than a degree, and several of these series are the ones New Jersey opens to applicants without any formal education requirement. At the state level the equivalent posts are represented by IFPTE rather than CWA.
Two jobs in one title
Laborer 1/Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Laborer 1 and Clerk at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. Small New Jersey employers use these when one function will not fill a whole position, so the Commission classifies the combined job rather than forcing it into one box or the other.
Separately, Clerk is its own family of 17 title codes across 4 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Laborer 1/Clerk 2: Under supervision, performs varied types of manual and unskilled laboring work, and may drive a truck in connection with laboring work on occasion; does other…
Requirements across the family
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 non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
These are local titles, so the hiring employers are New Jersey's counties, municipalities, authorities, library boards, school districts and fire districts that have adopted civil service under Title 11A. Not every New Jersey employer has. A town that never adopted the system hires however it chooses and never posts against these codes at all, which is why checking the employer before checking the title saves time. Look up whether an employer is a civil service jurisdiction, or read how local civil service differs from state.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Other classifications built on the same terms as Laborer 1/Clerk. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Laborer 1 (local jurisdiction) — in the Laborer family
- Equipment Operator / Laborer 3 — in the Equipment Operator / Laborer family
- Clerk ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction)
- Clerk 1 (local jurisdiction) — in the Clerk family
- Law Clerk ($63,663 to $92,953, state jurisdiction)
- Mail Clerk ($39,358 to $56,481, both state and local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Laborer 1/Clerk jobs
How many Laborer 1/Clerk titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Laborer 1/Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Laborer 1/Clerk earn in New Jersey?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Laborer 1/Clerk?
Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 1. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.
What qualifications does a Laborer 1/Clerk 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.