Medical Security Officer Family
Career series with 4 positions across 3 levels
Medical Security Officer groups 4 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Medical Security Officer 1, advancing through the ladder toward Medical Security Officer 3. Pay across the family spans $57,582 to $106,798, around the 34th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 485 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.
Medical Security Officer commonly advances into Fire Officer and Regulatory Officer.
Positions in This Family
- MEDICAL SECURITY OFFICER 2 (32682) $63,663 - $92,953/year
- MEDICAL SECURITY OFFICER 3 (32683) $72,896 - $106,798/year
- MEDICAL SECURITY OFFICER 1 (32687) $57,582 - $83,828/year
- MEDICAL SECURITY OFFICER 1 (32687C) $57,582 - $83,828/year
What the Medical Security Officer family covers
Medical Security Officer is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 4 title codes across 3 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.
Sworn and investigative titles sit apart from the rest of civil service. They carry their own salary schedules, their own unions and, in most cases, an academy requirement and a medical and psychological screen on top of the exam. Rank is handled by moving between titles rather than by moving up a range, so the ladder here is a sequence of separate classifications. New Jersey also runs a large civilian investigative service alongside the sworn forces, and those titles follow ordinary competitive rules even though the work overlaps.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Medical Security Officer rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Medical Security Officer 3 — $72,896 to $106,798 (3 years of experience)
- Medical Security Officer 2 — $63,663 to $92,953 (2 years of experience)
- Medical Security Officer 1 — $57,582 to $83,828 (1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Medical Security Officer 1 to the top of Medical Security Officer 3 is $49,216, an increase of about 85% 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.
- Medical Security Officer 2: Under the general supervision of a higher-level supervisory official in a state hospital or long-term care facility, supervises the work of medical security…
- Medical Security Officer 3: Under the direction of the Director of Medical Security or other administrative official in a state hospital or long-term care facility, supervises the work of…
- Medical Security Officer 1: Under the limited supervision of a supervisory official in a state hospital or long-term care facility, performs paraprofessional and manual duties involved in…
What it takes to qualify
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. 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
State payroll records show 485 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Health and Senior Services — 485 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $68,314 for Medical Security Officer 1 up to $83,533 for Medical Security Officer 3. 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 2 salary schedules (A-P-R-S and H), 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: AFSCME and CWA.
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
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Medical Security Officer, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Medical Security Officer Recruit ($52,696 to $52,696, state jurisdiction)
- Director of Medical Security ($53,632 to $75,095, state jurisdiction) — in the Director family
- Security Officer ($45,874 to $66,294, state jurisdiction)
- Chief Security Officer ($63,663 to $92,953, state jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Senior Security Officer ($50,059 to $72,550, state jurisdiction)
- Assistant Chief Security Officer ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Medical Security Officer jobs
How many Medical Security Officer titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Medical Security Officer family holds 4 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Medical Security Officer earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $57,582 at the bottom of Medical Security Officer 1 to $106,798 at the top of Medical Security Officer 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 Medical Security Officer?
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 qualifications does a Medical Security Officer 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 to 3 years is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Medical Security Officer staff?
State payroll records show 485 people in this family across 1 agency, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 485. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.