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Professional Services Specialist Family

Career series with 13 positions across 4 levels

In New Jersey civil service, Professional Services Specialist names a 4-level progression covering 13 distinct titles.

Entry is typically through Professional Services Specialist 4 Facilities, advancing through the ladder toward Professional Services Specialist 1 Facilities. Pay across the family spans $50,990 to $128,719, around the 54th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay.

Professional Services Specialist reports to supervising titles such as Assistant Director of Nursing Services and Director of Nursing Services.

13
Positions
4
Career Levels
4
Specializations
Salary Range: $50,990 - $128,719/year

Specializations

Administrative Services Administrative Services - 10 Months Computer Services Facilities

Positions in This Family

What the Professional Services Specialist family covers

New Jersey classifies Professional Services Specialist as a 4-level series holding 13 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.

Technology classifications age badly, and New Jersey's show it. The plan still carries titles written around tape libraries, keypunch and input and output control, sitting alongside newer series for network administration, database work and software development. For an applicant that matters practically: an older title may describe duties nobody performs any more while the position itself has quietly become something else, so the specification is a weaker guide to the actual job here than it is in most families. Salaries also drift furthest from private-sector equivalents in this group, which is the reason the compendium allows advanced-step hiring for information processing titles.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Professional Services Specialist family stacks up as follows. 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.

Showing the 12 best paid of 13 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Professional Services Specialist 4 Administrative Services - 10 Months to the top of Professional Services Specialist 1 Facilities is $77,728, an increase of about 152% 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.

Showing 8 of 13 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 13 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a doctoral degree on 6 of them, a bachelor's degree on 4 of them, and a master's degree on 3 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 2 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 13 are non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination. 4 titles in this family are covered by the compendium's special incentive program, which lets an appointing authority hire a qualified candidate above the bottom step instead of starting them at step one. See the full list of incentive titles.

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.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Professional Services Specialist.

Common questions about Professional Services Specialist jobs

How many separate Professional Services Specialist classifications does New Jersey have?

The Professional Services Specialist family holds 13 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is a Professional Services Specialist paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $50,990 at the bottom of Professional Services Specialist 4 Administrative Services - 10 Months to $128,719 at the top of Professional Services Specialist 1 Facilities. 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 Professional Services Specialist?

Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 13. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.

What are the requirements to become a Professional Services Specialist?

The most common education requirement in this family is a doctoral degree, named on 6 of the 13 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 2 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Is Professional Services Specialist 1 higher or lower than Professional Services Specialist 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.