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Manager Family

Career series with 92 positions across 4 levels

Manager is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 92 titles spanning 4 levels.

Entry is typically through Manager 1 Insurance, advancing through the ladder toward Manager 3 Fiscal Resources. Pay across the family spans $62,090 to $190,429, around the 98th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 257 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.

92
Positions
4
Career Levels
18
Specializations
Salary Range: $62,090 - $190,429/year

Specializations

Civil Service Commission Civil Service Commission Merit System Practices Department Of Law And Public Safety Department Of Transportation Department Of Transportation Program Analysis Education Environmental Protection Fiscal Resources +10 more

Positions in This Family

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What the Manager family covers

New Jersey classifies Manager as a 4-level series holding 92 separate title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 67 state and 1 local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

Chief, director, manager and supervisor are not single jobs in New Jersey civil service. They are ranks applied across the whole of government, so a single family can hold hundreds of codes covering entirely unrelated bureaus. That structure matters for anyone reading the pay figures: two titles in the same family may share nothing except a level of responsibility. Most of these positions are managerial or unclassified, which means salaries are set individually rather than by stepping through a published ladder, and the managerial schedule itself has been frozen since 2007.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Manager family stacks up as follows. 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.

Showing the 12 best paid of 43 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Manager 1, Vocational Rehabilitation Services to the top of Manager 3 Fiscal Resources is $128,339, an increase of about 207% over the entry minimum. 52 of the 92 titles in the family sit on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.

What each title does

The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.

  • Manager 1 Insurance: MANAGER 1 INSURANCE JOB CATEGORY SUMMARY A position in this category typically functions as a manager of an organizational unit within the Division of Insurance, Department of Banking and Insurance.
  • Manager 1 Insurance Specialized Credentials: MANAGER 1 INSURANCE SPECIALIZED CREDENTIALS JOB CATEGORY SUMMARY A position in this category typically functions as a manager of an organizational unit(s); responsibilities include planning…
  • Manager 2 Insurance: MANAGER 2 INSURANCE JOB CATEGORY SUMMARY A position in this category typically functions as a manager of an organizational unit within the Division of Insurance, Department of Banking and Insurance.
  • Manager 2 Insurance Specialized Credentials: MANAGER 2 INSURANCE SPECIALIZED CREDENTIALS JOB CATEGORY SUMMARY A position in this category typically functions as a manager of an organizational unit(s); responsibilities include planning…
  • Manager 1 Information Processing: MANAGER 1 INFORMATION PROCESSING   JOB CATEGORY SUMMARY A position in this category typically functions as a manager of an organizational unit, monitors progress of projects, and implements…
  • Manager 2, Workforce New Jersey: Under the director of a Regional Manager, Bureau Chief, or other higher level manager in the Department of Labor, manages and directs a field office(s)…
  • Manager 1, Workforce New Jersey: Under the director of a Regional Manager, Bureau Chief, or other higher level manager in the Department of Labor, manages and directs a field office(s)…
  • Manager 1 Motor Vehicle Commission: Under the direction of a higher-level manager or other executive official in the Motor Vehicle Commission, is responsible for administering the work…

Showing 8 of 38 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 92 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 37 of them, a doctoral degree on 27 of them, and a master's degree on 25 of them. Stated experience runs from 2 years at the lowest rung to 8 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

9 of the 92 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 41 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination, 1 is non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination, and 5 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually. 5 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

State payroll records show 257 people working under 23 of this family's titles, spread across 22 agencies. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 25% of them.

  • Environmental Protection — 64 employees
  • Banking and Insurance — 29 employees
  • Motor Vehicle Commission — 26 employees
  • Law and Public Safety — 24 employees
  • Labor — 20 employees
  • Education — 14 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 22 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $111,600 for Manager 1 Fiscal Resources up to $173,880 for Manager 1, Environmental Protection. 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

The family is split across 4 salary schedules (A-P-R-S, M, M-Represented, and ML), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. More than one union has members in this family: CWA and IBEW.

Where these jobs exist

Because the family mixes jurisdictions, the answer to "who hires this" depends on the specific code. State codes run through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process; local codes are hired by the counties, municipalities and authorities that adopted civil service under Title 11A. Check an employer's status before assuming a title is available where you live.

Related titles elsewhere in the plan

Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.

Common questions about Manager jobs

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

The Manager family holds 92 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Manager earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $62,090 at the bottom of Manager 1, Vocational Rehabilitation Services to $190,429 at the top of Manager 3 Fiscal Resources. 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 Manager?

Yes for most of the family. 41 of the 92 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 Manager need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 37 of the 92 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 to 8 years depending on the rung. 9 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Manager staff?

State payroll records show 257 people in this family across 22 agencies, with Environmental Protection the largest at 64. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Manager 1 higher or lower than Manager 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.