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Public Health Representative Family

Career series with 17 positions across 3 levels

In New Jersey civil service, Public Health Representative names a 3-level progression covering 17 distinct titles.

Entry is typically through Public Health Representative 3, advancing through the ladder toward Public Health Representative 1 and, from there, into supervisory roles. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $128,719, around the 54th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 575 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.

Public Health Representative reports to supervising titles such as Senior Environmental Health Specialist.

17
Positions
3
Career Levels
7
Specializations
Salary Range: $58,222 - $128,719/year

Specializations

Bilingual In Spanish & English Bilingual In Spanish And English Communicable Disease Communicable Disease Bil In Sp/eng Emergency Medical Services Lactation Oncology Data Specialist

Positions in This Family

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What the Public Health Representative family covers

Public Health Representative is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 17 title codes across 3 levels. The family straddles jurisdictions: 15 state and 2 both state and 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.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Public Health Representative rungs look like this. 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 17 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Public Health Representative 3 to the top of Supervising Public Health Representative is $70,497, an increase of about 121% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.

Showing 8 of 17 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

What it takes to qualify

Across the 17 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 15 of them and a master's degree on 2 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 4 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

6 of the 17 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 17 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

575 people appear on the state payroll under 17 of these titles, at 2 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 97% of them.

  • Health and Senior Services — 560 employees
  • Unknown — 15 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $61,382 for Public Health Representative 3 up to $124,366 for Supervising Public Health Representative. 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

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

These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Public Health Representative, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.

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 Public Health Representative.

Common questions about Public Health Representative jobs

How many separate Public Health Representative classifications does New Jersey have?

The Public Health Representative family holds 17 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is a Public Health Representative paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Public Health Representative 3 to $128,719 at the top of Supervising Public Health Representative. 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 Public Health Representative?

Yes for most of the family. 17 of the 17 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 Public Health Representative?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 15 of the 17 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 4 years depending on the rung. 6 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Public Health Representative staff?

State payroll records show 575 people in this family across 2 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 560. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Public Health Representative 1 higher or lower than Public Health Representative 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.