Licensed Clinical Psychologist Family
Career series with 2 positions across 2 levels
New Jersey classifies Licensed Clinical Psychologist as a 2-level family, 2 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1, advancing through the ladder toward Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2. Pay across the family spans $95,955 to $162,870, around the 91st percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 59 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist commonly advances into Clinical Laboratory Evaluator and Staff Clinical Psychologist.
Positions in This Family
- LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST 1 (60320) $95,955 - $141,386/year
- LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST 2 (60321) $110,276 - $162,870/year
What the Licensed Clinical Psychologist family covers
Licensed Clinical Psychologist is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 2 title codes across 2 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.
The state is a direct care employer at scale, running psychiatric hospitals, developmental centers and veterans homes around the clock. That shapes the classifications: shift work, unusual work weeks and institution-specific variants are normal here rather than exceptional, and the same clinical title can exist several times over for different facilities. Professional licensure carries the qualification weight, so movement between the public and private sector is easier in this group than almost anywhere else in civil service. Counties run their own health departments and hire parallel titles under local jurisdiction.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Licensed Clinical Psychologist rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2 — $110,276 to $162,870 (a doctoral degree and 1 year of experience)
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1 — $95,955 to $141,386 (a doctoral degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1 to the top of Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2 is $66,915, an increase of about 70% 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.
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1: LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST 1  …
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2: Under the general supervision of an Administrator of Psychological Services, or other supervisory official in a State hospital, developmental center, or…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 2 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a doctoral degree on 2 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
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 competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination. 2 titles in this family are covered by the compendium's special incentive program, which lets an appointing authority hire a qualified candidate above the bottom step instead of starting them at step one. See the full list of incentive titles.
Who actually employs these titles
59 people appear on the state payroll under 1 of these title, at 2 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 92% of them.
- Health and Senior Services — 54 employees
- Human Services — 5 employees
Median actual pay for Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2 is $152,281, 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
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 Licensed Clinical Psychologist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Clinical Psychologist (local jurisdiction)
- Clinical Psychologist (local jurisdiction)
- Clinical Psychologist 1 ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction) — in the Clinical Psychologist family
- Chief Clinical Psychologist (local jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Staff Clinical Psychologist I ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction)
- Staff Clinical Psychologist 2 ($66,592 to $97,354, state jurisdiction) — in the Staff Clinical Psychologist family
Common questions about Licensed Clinical Psychologist jobs
How many separate Licensed Clinical Psychologist classifications does New Jersey have?
The Licensed Clinical Psychologist family holds 2 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $95,955 at the bottom of Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1 to $162,870 at the top of Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2. 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 Licensed Clinical Psychologist?
Yes for most of the family. 2 of the 2 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 Licensed Clinical Psychologist?
The most common education requirement in this family is a doctoral degree, named on 2 of the 2 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 year 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 Licensed Clinical Psychologist staff?
State payroll records show 59 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 54. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.