Occupational Safety Consultant Family
Career series with 2 positions across 2 levels
Occupational Safety Consultant groups 2 related titles into a 2-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Occupational Safety Consultant 1, advancing through the ladder toward Occupational Safety Consultant 2. Pay across the family spans $69,668 to $117,228, around the 43rd percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 34 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Labor.
Occupational Safety Consultant commonly advances into Occupational Health Consultant and Occupational Therapist.
Positions in This Family
- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY CONSULTANT 1 (03944) $69,668 - $101,951/year
- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY CONSULTANT 2 (03945) $79,844 - $117,228/year
What the Occupational Safety Consultant family covers
Occupational Safety Consultant 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.
Inspectors and examiners are the operating arm of New Jersey's regulatory statutes, and the title usually tracks the law it enforces rather than a profession. That is why these families are narrow and numerous: weights and measures, construction code, environmental compliance, child care, insurance and market conduct each get their own series. Many require a state credential issued by another agency before you can hold the title at all, so the license, not the exam, is the real bottleneck. Local health and code enforcement offices hire the same titles as the state.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Occupational Safety Consultant rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Occupational Safety Consultant 2 — $79,844 to $117,228 (a bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience)
- Occupational Safety Consultant 1 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Occupational Safety Consultant 1 to the top of Occupational Safety Consultant 2 is $47,560, an increase of about 68% 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.
- Occupational Safety Consultant 1: Under the limited supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, conducts either on-site safety enforcement…
- Occupational Safety Consultant 2: Under the general supervision of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency, conducts either the more complex on-site…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 2 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 2 of them. Stated experience runs from 2 years 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: 2 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 34 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 7 agencies. Labor alone accounts for about 56% of them.
- Labor — 19 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 6 employees
- Human Services — 5 employees
- Transportation — 1 employee
- Environmental Protection — 1 employee
- Motor Vehicle Commission — 1 employee
Those are the 6 largest of 7 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $79,789 for Occupational Safety Consultant 1 up to $104,234 for Occupational Safety Consultant 2. 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
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Occupational Safety Consultant, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Occupational Safety Consultant Apprentice ($63,663 to $66,592, state jurisdiction)
- Occupational Health Consultant 4 ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction) — in the Occupational Health Consultant family
- Occupational Health Consultant Trainee ($53,282 to $55,691, state jurisdiction)
- Assistant Chief, Occupational Safety ($95,955 to $141,386, state jurisdiction)
- Coordinator Occupational Health and Safety Program ($68,455 to $95,846, state jurisdiction)
- Coordinator, Occupational Health and Safety Program ($71,879 to $100,638, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Occupational Safety Consultant jobs
How many Occupational Safety Consultant titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Occupational Safety Consultant family holds 2 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does an Occupational Safety Consultant earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $69,668 at the bottom of Occupational Safety Consultant 1 to $117,228 at the top of Occupational Safety Consultant 2. 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 Safety Consultant?
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 qualifications does an Occupational Safety Consultant need?
The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 2 of the 2 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Occupational Safety Consultant staff?
State payroll records show 34 people in this family across 7 agencies, with Labor the largest at 19. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.