Physician Family
Career series with 2 positions across 1 levels
New Jersey classifies Physician as a 1-level family, 2 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
The family is anchored by Physician 2. Pay across the family spans $126,854 to $196,817, around the 98th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 3 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Human Services.
Physician is a common next step after Physician Specialist.
Positions in This Family
- PHYSICIAN 2 (00097) $126,854 - $187,691/year
- PHYSICIAN 2 (08074) $132,938 - $196,817/year
What the Physician family covers
The Physician family holds 2 related New Jersey civil service 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.
The state is a direct care employer at scale, running psychiatric hospitals, developmental centers and veterans homes around the clock. That shapes the classifications: shift work, unusual work weeks and institution-specific variants are normal here rather than exceptional, and the same clinical title can exist several times over for different facilities. Professional licensure carries the qualification weight, so movement between the public and private sector is easier in this group than almost anywhere else in civil service. Counties run their own health departments and hire parallel titles under local jurisdiction.
The ladder, ordered by pay
The Physician rungs, listed from the best paid down. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Physician 2 — $132,938 to $196,817 (a doctoral degree)
- Physician 2 — $126,854 to $187,691 (a doctoral degree)
The distance from the bottom of Physician 2 to the top of Physician 2 is $69,962, an increase of about 55% 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.
- Physician 2: Under the direction of the Medical Director, Assistant Medical Director or other supervisory officer in a State hospital, institution or agency is responsible for the…
Requirements across the family
Across the 2 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a doctoral degree on 2 of them. On how the jobs are filled: 2 are unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.
Who actually employs these titles
3 people appear on the state payroll under 1 of these title, at 2 agencies. Human Services alone accounts for about 67% of them.
- Human Services — 2 employees
- Law and Public Safety — 1 employee
Median actual pay for Physician 2 is $222,589, which is what people in the title are really paid rather than the published band.
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
Other classifications built on the same terms as Physician. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Physician ($160,481 to $238,146, state jurisdiction)
- Physician (local jurisdiction)
- Physician ($168,248 to $249,836, state jurisdiction)
- Clinic Physician (local jurisdiction)
- School Physician (local jurisdiction)
- Township Physician (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Physician jobs
How many separate Physician classifications does New Jersey have?
The Physician family holds 2 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Physician paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $126,854 at the bottom of Physician 2 to $196,817 at the top of Physician 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 Physician?
Mostly no. 2 of the 2 titles here are unclassified, so appointment is at the employer's discretion rather than from an eligible list, and salary is set individually rather than by a published step. That also makes cross-agency salary comparison less reliable for these titles.
What are the requirements to become a Physician?
The most common education requirement in this family is a doctoral degree, named on 2 of the 2 titles. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Physician staff?
State payroll records show 3 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Human Services the largest at 2. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.