Personnel Aide Family
Career series with 3 positions across 2 levels
New Jersey classifies Personnel Aide as a 2-level family, 3 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Personnel Aide 1, advancing through the ladder toward Personnel Aide 2. Pay across the family spans $44,750 to $70,641, around the 8th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 46 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Human Services.
Personnel Aide reports to supervising titles such as Personnel Assistant and Supervisor Personnel Records and Payroll Processing.
Positions in This Family
- PERSONNEL AIDE 1 (63232) $44,750 - $64,522/year
- PERSONNEL AIDE 1 (63232C) $44,750 - $64,522/year
- PERSONNEL AIDE 2 (63234) $48,807 - $70,641/year
What the Personnel Aide family covers
New Jersey classifies Personnel Aide as a 2-level series holding 3 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Personnel titles administer the system this site documents: they run the exams, maintain the eligible lists, classify positions and handle the layoff and grievance machinery. That gives them an unusual footprint, since every department needs the function and the Civil Service Commission sets the rules for all of them. Training, affirmative action and equal employment titles sit in the same neighborhood. Local jurisdictions that have adopted Title 11A hire their own versions, which is why several of these families carry local as well as state codes.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Personnel Aide family stacks up as follows. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Personnel Aide 2 — $48,807 to $70,641 (an associate's degree and 1 year of experience)
- Personnel Aide 1 — $44,750 to $64,522 (an associate's degree)
The distance from the bottom of Personnel Aide 1 to the top of Personnel Aide 2 is $25,891, an increase of about 58% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.
- Personnel Aide 1: Under close supervision of a supervisory official in the personnel office of a state department, institution, or agency, performs limited, technical duties in connection…
- Personnel Aide 2: Under limited supervision of a supervisory official in the personnel office of a state department, institution, or agency, performs paraprofessional technical duties in…
Getting in: the stated requirements
Across the 3 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as an associate's degree on 3 of them. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
46 people appear on the state payroll under 2 of these titles, at 13 agencies. Human Services alone accounts for about 33% of them.
- Human Services — 15 employees
- Health and Senior Services — 15 employees
- Corrections — 3 employees
- Treasury — 3 employees
- Military and Veterans Affairs — 2 employees
- Education — 1 employee
Those are the 6 largest of 13 agencies employing this family.
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $50,878 for Personnel Aide 1 up to $57,704 for Personnel Aide 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
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
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Personnel Aide (local jurisdiction)
- Personnel Trainee ($55,691 to $58,222, state jurisdiction)
- Personnel Assistant 4 ($60,876 to $88,743, state jurisdiction) — in the Personnel Assistant family
- Senior Personnel Technician (local jurisdiction)
- Assistant Personnel Officer (local jurisdiction)
- Assistant Personnel Director (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Personnel Aide jobs
How many separate Personnel Aide classifications does New Jersey have?
The Personnel Aide family holds 3 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 Personnel Aide paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $44,750 at the bottom of Personnel Aide 1 to $70,641 at the top of Personnel Aide 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 Personnel Aide?
Yes for most of the family. 3 of the 3 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 Personnel Aide?
The most common education requirement in this family is an associate's degree, named on 3 of the 3 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 year depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Personnel Aide staff?
State payroll records show 46 people in this family across 13 agencies, with Human Services the largest at 15. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.