Landscape Designer Family
Career series with 3 positions across 3 levels
Landscape Designer is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 3 titles spanning 3 levels.
Entry is typically through Landscape Designer 1, advancing through the ladder toward Landscape Designer 3. Pay across the family spans $63,663 to $122,832, around the 48th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 3 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Transportation.
Landscape Designer is closely related to Urban Designer.
Positions in This Family
- LANDSCAPE DESIGNER 1 (10692) $63,663 - $92,953/year
- LANDSCAPE DESIGNER 2 (10693) $72,896 - $106,798/year
- LANDSCAPE DESIGNER 3 (10694) $83,582 - $122,832/year
What the Landscape Designer family covers
Landscape Designer covers 3 title codes arranged into 3 levels of responsibility. 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
The Landscape Designer rungs, listed from the best paid down. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Landscape Designer 3 — $83,582 to $122,832 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Landscape Designer 2 — $72,896 to $106,798 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Landscape Designer 1 — $63,663 to $92,953 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Landscape Designer 1 to the top of Landscape Designer 3 is $59,169, an increase of about 93% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.
- Landscape Designer 1: Under the close supervision of a Landscape Designer 3 or other supervisory official in a state department, agency, or office, performs routine tasks involved in the…
- Landscape Designer 2: Under the limited supervision of a Landscape Designer 3 or other supervisory official in a state department, agency, or office, performs complex tasks involved in…
- Landscape Designer 3: Under the general direction of a Project Engineer or other supervisory official in a state department, agency, or office, performs the complex tasks involved in the…
Requirements across the family
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 3 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.
Every title here carries a license or certification requirement, so the credential matters more than the exam score. On how the jobs are filled: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 3 people working under 1 of this family's title, spread across 1 agency. Transportation alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Transportation — 3 employees
Median actual pay for Landscape Designer 2 is $76,982, 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 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
Other classifications built on the same terms as Landscape Designer. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Landscape Designer Trainee ($60,876 to $63,663, state jurisdiction)
- Urban Designer 1 (local jurisdiction) — in the Urban Designer family
- Urban Designer Trainee (local jurisdiction)
- Supervisor Landscape (local jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Landscape Technician ($50,059 to $72,550, state jurisdiction)
- Section Chief, Landscape ($105,267 to $155,359, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Landscape Designer jobs
How many Landscape Designer titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Landscape Designer family holds 3 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Landscape Designer earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $63,663 at the bottom of Landscape Designer 1 to $122,832 at the top of Landscape Designer 3. 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 a Landscape Designer?
Yes for most of the family. 3 of the 3 titles 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 Landscape Designer need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 3 of the 3 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. 3 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Landscape Designer staff?
State payroll records show 3 people in this family across 1 agency, with Transportation the largest at 3. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.