Occupational Health Consultant Family
Career series with 4 positions across 4 levels
Occupational Health Consultant groups 4 related titles into a 4-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Occupational Health Consultant 4, advancing through the ladder toward Occupational Health Consultant 1. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $128,719, around the 54th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 17 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.
Occupational Health Consultant commonly advances into Occupational Therapist and Human Resource Consultant.
Positions in This Family
- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CONSULTANT 4 (03114) $58,222 - $84,763/year
- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CONSULTANT 3 (03912) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CONSULTANT 2 (03913) $79,844 - $117,228/year
- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CONSULTANT 1 (03914) $87,507 - $128,719/year
What the Occupational Health Consultant family covers
Occupational Health Consultant covers 4 title codes arranged into 4 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.
Clinical titles staff the state psychiatric hospitals, the developmental centers, the veterans homes and the county health departments. Licensure usually does the gatekeeping that an exam does elsewhere, so the qualification text points at a board registration rather than a test score, and the competitive exam is often an evaluation of credentials. This is also the corner of the compendium where the state pays to fill vacancies faster: several health care titles can be hired above the bottom step under the special incentive program.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Occupational Health Consultant rungs, listed from the best paid down. 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.
- Occupational Health Consultant 1 — $87,507 to $128,719 (a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
- Occupational Health Consultant 2 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Occupational Health Consultant 3 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
- Occupational Health Consultant 4 — $58,222 to $84,763 (a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Occupational Health Consultant 4 to the top of Occupational Health Consultant 1 is $70,497, an increase of about 121% 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.
- Occupational Health Consultant 4: Under close supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, assists in conducting routine, onsite occupational…
- Occupational Health Consultant 3: Under limited supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, assists in conducting consultation visits to identify…
- Occupational Health Consultant 2: Under general supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, independently conducts consultation visits to…
- Occupational Health Consultant 1: Under general direction of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, functions as a lead worker providing guidance to…
Requirements across the family
Across the 4 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 4 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 4 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 17 people working under 3 of this family's titles, spread across 8 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 29% of them.
- Health and Senior Services — 5 employees
- Labor — 3 employees
- Environmental Protection — 2 employees
- Motor Vehicle Commission — 2 employees
- Transportation — 2 employees
- Treasury — 1 employee
Those are the 6 largest of 8 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $79,789 for Occupational Health Consultant 4 up to $120,384 for Occupational Health Consultant 1. 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
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 Occupational Health Consultant. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Occupational Health Consultant Trainee ($53,282 to $55,691, state jurisdiction)
- Occupational Safety Consultant 1 ($69,668 to $101,951, state jurisdiction) — in the Occupational Safety Consultant family
- Occupational Safety Consultant Apprentice ($63,663 to $66,592, state jurisdiction)
- Health Care Consultant (state jurisdiction)
- Public Health Nurse Consultant (local jurisdiction)
- Public Health Consultant 2 Nursing ($83,582 to $122,832, state jurisdiction) — in the Public Health Consultant family
Common questions about Occupational Health Consultant jobs
How many Occupational Health Consultant titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Occupational Health Consultant family holds 4 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Occupational Health Consultant earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Occupational Health Consultant 4 to $128,719 at the top of Occupational Health Consultant 1. 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 an Occupational Health Consultant?
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 an Occupational Health Consultant need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 4 of the 4 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 4 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Occupational Health Consultant staff?
State payroll records show 17 people in this family across 8 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 5. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Occupational Health Consultant 1 higher or lower than Occupational Health Consultant 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.