Public Safety Telecommunicator/clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Because Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk 3 is non-competitive, hiring leans on your background rather than a test score: meet the requirements and apply to the agency directly.
Qualifying turns on 1 year of relevant experience.
Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk is a single-title classification family: Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk 3 is the only position in it. Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk commonly advances into Public Information Specialist.
Positions in This Family
What the Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series. 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.
Public safety classifications are built around rank rather than around grade, so advancement means competing for a different title instead of climbing steps in the current one. Entry requirements are unusually hard-edged: age limits, residency rules, medical and psychological screening, and an academy that must be completed after appointment rather than before it. Pay comes from separate schedules negotiated by separate unions, and those schedules often carry a contract-negotiated jump near the top of the ladder that the civilian tables do not have.
Two jobs in one title
Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Public Safety Telecommunicator and Clerk at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. They exist because a borough or authority with a single crew cannot justify a separate post per function, so the combined duties get their own classification.
Separately, Clerk is its own family of 17 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.
- Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk 3: Under direction receives and responds to telephone or other electronic requests for emergency assistance, including…
What it takes to qualify
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
Nothing in this family is hired by a state department. These are local codes, which means the employer is a county, municipality, authority, library, fire district or school district that chose to come under Title 11A. Roughly a quarter of New Jersey's municipalities did. In the rest, the same job exists but the hiring is done outside the civil service system entirely, so the title code will never appear in a posting. Check a specific employer before you plan around one of these titles, or read how local civil service works.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Public Safety Telecommunicator ($52,308 to $75,954, state jurisdiction)
- Public Safety Telecommunicator (local jurisdiction)
- Chief Public Safety Telecommunicator (local jurisdiction) — in the Chief family
- Senior Public Safety Telecommunicator ($59,763 to $87,117, state jurisdiction)
- Public Safety Telecommunicator Trainee ($50,059 to $50,059, both state and local jurisdiction)
- Public Safety Telecommunicator Trainee (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk jobs
How many separate Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk classifications does New Jersey have?
The Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk paid?
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.
Is there a civil service test for Public Safety Telecommunicator/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 are the requirements to become a Public Safety Telecommunicator/Clerk?
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.