Property Clerk/keyboarding Clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk 1 is non-competitive, meaning the state checks your education and experience against the spec instead of ranking you on a test.
It asks for 1 year of relevant experience.
Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk is a single-title classification family: Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk 1 is the only position in it. Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk commonly advances into Clerk and Clerk Stenographer.
Positions in This Family
What the Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk family covers
Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk is a single-title family in the New Jersey civil service classification plan: one title code, with no numbered rungs above or below it. Every title in it is a local title, used by the counties, municipalities, authorities and boards that have adopted civil service under Title 11A rather than by state departments.
Clerical series are the entry door to New Jersey civil service and the largest group by headcount. They are also the most duplicated: nearly every one exists in both a state and a local version, and the local versions are what municipal clerks, county offices and boards of education hire against. Most require a high school diploma and nothing more, which makes them the practical route in for applicants without a degree. Advancement runs by responsibility, from clerk to senior to principal to head, with the specialised transcription and stenography variants branching off partway up.
Two jobs in one title
Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Property Clerk and Keyboarding Clerk at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. Small New Jersey employers use these when one function will not fill a whole position, so the Commission classifies the combined job rather than forcing it into one box or the other.
Separately, Keyboarding Clerk is its own family of 8 title codes across 4 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk 1: Under direction, is responsible for the collection, recording, and safe storage of property and other valuables consigned or confiscated…
Requirements across the family
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
These are local titles, so the hiring employers are New Jersey's counties, municipalities, authorities, library boards, school districts and fire districts that have adopted civil service under Title 11A. Not every New Jersey employer has. A town that never adopted the system hires however it chooses and never posts against these codes at all, which is why checking the employer before checking the title saves time. Look up whether an employer is a civil service jurisdiction, or read how local civil service differs from state.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Other classifications built on the same terms as Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Keyboarding Clerk 1 (local jurisdiction) — in the Keyboarding Clerk family
- Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk 2 (local jurisdiction) — in the Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk family
- Computer Operator/Keyboarding Clerk 3 (local jurisdiction) — in the Computer Operator/Keyboarding Clerk family
- Keyboarding Clerk 2/Telephone Operator (local jurisdiction)
- Keyboarding Clerk 3/Telephone Operator
- Keyboarding Clerk 3/Purchasing Assistant (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk jobs
How many Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk earn in New Jersey?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk?
Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 1. 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 qualifications does a Property Clerk/Keyboarding Clerk need?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 1 year is named where a requirement is stated.