Physician Family
Career series with 3 positions across 1 levels
New Jersey classifies Physician as a 1-level family, 3 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
The family is anchored by Physician 2. Pay across the family spans $126,854 to $187,691, around the 96th 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
- SENIOR PHYSICIAN (05312)
- PHYSICIAN 2 (08074)
What the Physician family covers
The Physician family holds 3 related New Jersey civil service title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 2 state and 1 local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.
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.
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…
- Senior Physician: The Civil Service Commission lists this title code but publishes no job specification for it. The classification shown here comes from the official title list, which is…
Requirements across the family
Across the 3 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
Because the family mixes jurisdictions, the answer to "who hires this" depends on the specific code. State codes run through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process; local codes are hired by the counties, municipalities and authorities that adopted civil service under Title 11A. Check an employer's status before assuming a title is available where you live.
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 3 title codes. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Physician paid?
Physician 2 is published at $126,854 to $187,691. Salary depends on the salary range assigned to the title and the step the employee has reached.
Is there a civil service test for Physician?
Mostly no. 2 of the 3 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 3 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.